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

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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

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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

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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  lt   body txt    The text file body txt contained the char  r  so I used perl to strip  r   cat body txt   perl success pl  gt  body2 txt mailx -s  subject text  me yahoo com  lt   body2 txt    This is success pl      while   lt STDIN gt             my  currLine               s  r  g          print

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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

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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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You can try this    cat   body txt  mailx -s  subject text  -a  attchement file  receiver domain com

[shell] Sending simple message body + file attachment using Linux Mailx

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