How To Send an Email With Attachment and Body from Linux

Erm most people would probably have to setup mail first ??

send-mail: Cannot open mail:25
Can’t send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1

When I send mail using above command I am getting two mails
One mail with body and another mail with body and attachment.
Do we need to configure any settings for mail ??

You can do the same thing with mutt:

mutt -s ‘subject’ -i file1 -a file2 -c user1@domain -b user2@domain user3@doman </dev/null

-s Specify the subject of the message.
-i Specify a file to include into the body of a message.
-a Attach a file to your message using MIME.
-c Specify a carbon-copy (CC) recipient
-b Specify a blind-carbon-copy (BCC) recipient

The redirect from /dev/null prevents mutt from going into interactive mode

I think that mutt is a lot simpler. For example, it can be installed on Fedora

yum -y install mutt

To use it is simply

mutt -s “Subject text” emailaddress < filetosend.odt

On opensuse 11.2 do this:
echo text body | mail -s “Subject line” -a attachment.txt person@internet.com

How about

cat mail.txt | mutt -a attachment -s subject me@to.com

Hi

First congrats on your daughter’s birth. Be happy and be safe. I have a question related to postfix. I want to monitor one single email user of my domain. e.g. i want to monitor ne@xyz.com how many emails it has sent out, how many sent successfully, how many rejected and how many deffered. now i have a script with me that works fine for me and give me output like how many total ne@xyz..com sent out, how many rejected and how many deffered. i’m goin to share this script with you here. what i want to add to this script is that it should give me the email addresses that are rejected. you know what i mean. it current tells me 750 emails are sent by this user. 200 rejected 100 deffered etc i want to know what email addresses are rejected. so if 200 are rejected it should give me 200 emails address aswell so i can see if there is spell mistake or something. here is the script. please have a look at this. or if you know any other software to monitor this kindly let me know. i want to moniter my postfix user who is sending out newsletters. i want reports how many are sent how many rejected how many deffered etc. which rejected emails.

here is script that i am using but it’s not givin me emails rejected. just the counts.

#!/usr/bin/perl
# vim:ts=2:sw=2:expandtab:cindent

### MAKE MODIFICATIONS FOR DATE AND SENDING EMAIL ADDRESS HERE ###

#$date=”Oct 14[5-9]“;
$date=”Dec 18″;
#$sender=”(.*)\@domain.com”; # Matches any sender from domain.com
#$sender=”username\@domain.com”; # Matches abc@domain.com
$sender=”user\@domain.com”; # Matches user@domain.com

### END OF USER MODIFICATIONS ###

$sent = 0;
$bounced = 0;
$deferred = 0;

$logFile=”/var/log/maillog”;
open LOGFILE, “<", $logFile;
@rawLogs = ;
close LOGFILE;

$date =~ s/^([A-Z][a-z]{2})( )([0-9])$/$1 $3/;
printf(“%s %s\n”,$sender, $date);

if ( grep(/(^[A-Z][a-z]{2} [0-9])$/, $date) ) {
$field = 6;
} else {
$field = 5;
}

@logs = grep(/$date .* postfix\/qmgr\[[0-9]+\]: .* from=/i, @rawLogs);
foreach (@logs) {
@line = split(/ /);
push(@msgIds, $line[$field]);
}

@sent = grep (/status=sent/, @rawLogs);
@bounced = grep (/status=bounced/, @rawLogs);

@ids = grep {defined} map {
if (exists $u{$_}) {
undef;
} else {
$u{$_}=undef; $_;
}
} @msgIds;

undef %u;

$i=0;
$cnt = $#ids + 1;
foreach $id(@ids) {
$final=0;
if (grep(/$id/, @sent)) {
$sent++;
$final=1;
} elsif (grep(/$id/, @bounced)) {
$bounced++;
$final=1;
}
if ($final != 1) {
$deferred++;
}
$i++;
}
print “Messages Delivered: $sent\n”;
print “Messages Bounced: $bounced\n”;
print “Messages Deferred: $deferred\n”;
print “Total Sent: “. ( $sent + $bounced + $deferred ) .”\n”;