Sending email attachements using unix !!

Question

hi
I want to send report generated my spooled file as attachment using unix shell script.
Can somebody help me out ?
many thanks

Answer 1

Nothing to do with PL/SQL.
Anyway, here's a snippet from a Unix shell script I wrote that does notification (via various methods). The code snippet is from the part where an e-mail with attachment is created for the Unix mail command. The variable names are (I hope) self explanatory.
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ConstructMail()
  # do we have an attachment and does the file exist?
  if  [ "$ATTACHMENT" != "" ] && [ ! -f $ATTACHMENT ]
  then
    Abort "Error. File [$ATTACHMENT] not found."
  fi
  # create the boundary tags for the attachment
  if [ "$ATTACHMENT" != "" ]
  then
    BASE=`basename ${ATTACHMENT}`
    BOUNDS1="-"`hostname`.`date +%y%m%d%H%M`.$$
    BOUNDS2="--"$BOUNDS1
  fi
  # now we construct a MIME e-mail that includes boundaries for e-mail
  # attachments
  echo "To: $EMAIL_RECIPIENT"                              >> $LETTER
  echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"                                    >> $LETTER
  echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"                                    >> $LETTER
  if  [ "$ATTACHMENT" = "" ]
  then
    echo "Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=US-ASCII"           >> $LETTER
  else
    echo "Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; Boundary=\"$BOUNDS1\"" >> $LETTER
    echo ""                                                     >> $LETTER
    echo "$BOUNDS2"                                             >> $LETTER
    echo "Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=US-ASCII"           >> $LETTER
  fi
  # now let's add the message's text body
  if [ -f $LETTER_BODY ]
  then
    cat $LETTER_BODY                                            >> $LETTER
  else
    Abort "Error. Letter body [$LETTER_BODY] not found!"
  fi
  # if we have an attachment, let's add it now
  if  [ "$ATTACHMENT" != "" ]
  then
    echo "$BOUNDS2"                                                   >> $LETTER
    echo "Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name=\"$BASE\"" >> $LETTER
    cat ${ATTACHMENT}                                                 >> $LETTER
  fi
</font>The only real complexity is creating the boundary tags between attachment and the mail body - and of course specifying the correct e-mail headers so that the mail reader will know what is what.
The above code creates a $LETTER file and this is then simply e-mailed using the Unix mail command, e.g.
/usr/bin/mail $RECIPIENT < $LETTER
More details in RFC 2045 - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045.html