Sending simple message body + file attachment using Linux Mailx

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I am writing a shell script to send an email using Linux Mailx, the email must contain a file attachment and a message body.

Currently sending an email with an attachment:

output.txt | mail -s "Daily Monitoring" james@dell.com

I wish to add a message body. How should i?

Linux Mailx:

mail [-eIinv] [-a header] [-b addr] [-c addr] [-s subj] to-addr

This should have all the answers to your questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17359/how-do-i-send-a-file-as-an-email-attachment-using-linux-command-line/14213935#14213935 — Eric Leschinski, Jan 16 '13 at 04:14

score 29 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 29 '18 at 19:25

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The usual way is to use uuencode for the attachments and echo for the body:

(uuencode output.txt output.txt; echo "Body of text") | mailx -s 'Subject' user@domain.com

For Solaris and AIX, you may need to put the echo statement first:

(echo "Body of text"; uuencode output.txt output.txt) | mailx -s 'Subject' user@domain.com

edited Jan 29 '18 at 19:25

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answered Nov 29 '11 at 17:34

johnsyweb

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tried executing the second one and it prompts a blank area and the only way to exit is ctr+c, it seems the code is not close, how can i solve this? – Rabb-bit Jun 01 '18 at 12:38
and when I press ctrl+c, it sends the mail without the attachment, please advise. – Rabb-bit Jun 01 '18 at 12:38
Do each of these commands in the pipeline work on your system individually? – johnsyweb Jun 03 '18 at 07:08
@Johnsyweb-I need to do the same activity without using uuencode. Is it possible?? – Nikhil Sep 15 '18 at 18:25
@nikhil: There are several alternatives here https://stackoverflow.com/q/17359/78845 – johnsyweb Sep 19 '18 at 20:28

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '15 at 11:28

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The best way is to use mpack!

mpack -s "Subject" -d "./body.txt" "././image.png" mailadress

mpack - subject - body - attachment - mailadress

answered Mar 05 '15 at 11:28

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 06 '15 at 20:32

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Johnsyweb's answer didn't work for me, but it works for me with Mutt:

echo "Message body" | mutt -s "Message subject" -a myfile.txt recipient@domain.com

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 05 '16 at 09:36

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Try this it works for me:

(echo "Hello XYX" ; uuencode /export/home/TOTAL_SI_COUNT_10042016.csv TOTAL_SI_COUNT_10042016.csv ) | mailx -s 'Script test' abc@xde.com

edited Oct 05 '16 at 09:36

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answered Oct 05 '16 at 09:14

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 20 '17 at 15:35

On RHEL Linux, I had trouble getting my message in the body of the email instead of as an attachment . Using od -cx, I found that the body of my email contained several /r. I used a perl script to strip the /r, and the message was correctly inserted into the body of the email.

mailx -s "subject text" me@yahoo.com < 'body.txt'

The text file body.txt contained the char \r, so I used perl to strip \r.

cat body.txt | perl success.pl > body2.txt
mailx -s "subject text" me@yahoo.com < 'body2.txt'

This is success.pl

    while (<STDIN>) {
        my $currLine = $_;
        s?\r??g;
        print
    }
;

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited May 18 '16 at 01:00

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You can try this:

(cat ./body.txt)|mailx -s "subject text" -a "attchement file" receiver@domain.com

edited May 18 '16 at 01:00

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answered May 18 '16 at 00:30

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