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
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