Sending simple message body + file attachment using Linux Mailx
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
Send email with body and attachment with mailx
From mailx's man page :
-a file
Attach the given file to the message.
-f makes mailx process a file as if it was provided on stdin, so you encountered an error because you were providing data to mailx both through stdin and a file.
How do I send a file as an email attachment using Linux command line?
None of the mutt ones worked for me. It was thinking the email address was part of the attachment. Had to do:
echo "This is the message body" | mutt -a "/path/to/file.to.attach" -s "subject of message" -- recipient@domain.example
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