[KLUG Members] email attachments from the command line

[Adam Williams]

>Never had to really do this until today. I need to attach a
>file from the command line, like in a nightly cron job. 
>For text files, no prob. "mail recipient < filename" seems
>to work just fine. Also "command | mail recipient" seems
>to work good.
>I'm having a trouble with other attachments though. Like a
>spreadsheet, PDF, bitmap, or other non-text file. I've
>experimented with metasend, but the file attachments keep
>showing up as multipart base64 encoded. Nay, I want just
>one email with one attachment, like the silly users are
>accustomed to receiving in most email clients. Is there an
>easy way to achieve this? The command I'm using is:
>metasend -b -t recipient -s "Here is my file!" -m
>application/octet-stream -f filename
>When I do this, I get several emails with the base64
>encoded gibberish in the body of the message. I've read
>the man page and tried the different encoding options, but
>I still get multiple emails that can't be decoded by the
>client.
>Any pointers in the right direction are appreciated. TIA!

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