How to send a mail with attachments?

[Lastknight]

Hi everyone,

I need to send a mail with attachment...the challenge is that is anyway apart from modules for attaching the content with mail..

Like we use MIME For attachments but i have been told not to use any modules from perl...

Any help will be highly appreciated...

Thanks in advance...

Lastknight..

[numberwhun]

Its funny you should ask that because at my job, we don't have any modules installed for mail and to get them installed would take an act of an unearthly being.

So, to send mail, we rely on a secondary Perl script which takes an array of parameters. For instance, here is what I can remember of the options you can feed the script:

-a email address(es) to send to. Separated by coma's if multiple.
-A a file containing email adddress(es) to send to. One per line if multiple.
-s subject, in double quotes, even if a variable is used containing the subject.
-b body of the email.
-B a file containing the body of the email.


There are other options, but those are right off the top of my head. What the mail script ends up doing is actually calling the system's "mailx" program, which is fairly simple to use to send emails. In case you are wondering, we are working on Solaris Unix.

Regards,

Jeff

[KevinADC]

You can always look at the MIME::Lite source code (or any other module) and see how it goes about sending an attachment and incorporate that code into yours.

[Lastknight]

Hi

thanks for your help guys..

I am grateful for the timely help offered by you people...

regards,

Lastknight

[numberwhun]

Any time. That is what we are here for. What did you end up using as a solution?

Regards,

Jeff