How to send e-mail with text and attachments by makemime and sendmail ?

[Sertac TULLUK]

Dear Mr Vlasenko;

Thank you soo much for your answer:

1) Yes, I want to subscribe as Ordinary mode, so I can see my mails on the 
list.

2) I couldn't understand why you haven't reproduce "only text" mode, the 
reason is may be that I am using "Windows Mail" as the client.. You may 
check with a hotmail account if you have..

3) I think you got a good point with -m or -j switches.. My feeling is that 
they are really not working in the last code.. Also, we need some more clear 
information about the usage of those switches. The documents you have 
written for this point is somehow little complicated I think. If you let me 
learn to use these switches more clearly, I will write a "How to use 
Makemime and Sendmail to send e-mail with text and attachments" document for 
all Busybox developers and users. I want to help contribute to this amazing 
project...

Again, thank you soo much for this nice project and thank you for your 
helps.

Sertac


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denys Vlasenko" <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
To: "Sertac TULLUK" <sertac at merihvideo.com.tr>
Cc: <busybox at busybox.net>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 6:13 AM
Subject: Re: How to send e-mail with text and attachments by makemime and 
sendmail ?


> On Saturday 18 December 2010 13:12, Sertac TULLUK wrote:
>> Dear Busybox owner, and Dear Mr Vlasenko;
>>
>> This is my third time to send below e-mail to busybox, but unfortunately 
>> I can't see my mails to get answered or appear on the archive list...
>> Is there a problem with my mail system?
>
> You subscribed in digest mode. Do you want your subscription
> changed to ordinary one?
>
>>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>>   From: Sertac TULLUK
>>   To: busybox at busybox.net
>>   Cc: busybox-owner at busybox.net
>>   Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 2:14 PM
>>   Subject: How to send e-mail with text and attachments by makemime and 
>> sendmail ?
>>
>>   The problems are:
>>
>>   1) I can create some plain text formatted message, and send it by 
>> following command:
>>
>>   ===> makemime -c "text/plain" -o /tmp/text.abc -a "From: SomeOne" -a 
>> "Subject: Hello" /home/mail.txt <===
>>   ===> cat /tmp/text.abc |sendmail -S serverip:587 -f 
>> sertac at xxx.com.tr -t stulluk at hotmail.com -t 
>> sertac at xxx.com.tr -au"sxxx at m.com.tr" -ap"xxxxxxx"  <===
>>
>>   However, when I receive the e-mail, the contents of the text message 
>> both appears on the body, and both as an attachment !!! Why ?
>
> I wasn't able to reproduce it. I received the email with /home/mail.txt as 
> its body,
> with no attachments.
>
>>   2) I can create some message with following commands, and send 
>> succesfully without any problem:
>>
>>   ===> makemime -c "application/octet-stream" -o /tmp/attachments.abc -a 
>> "From: SomeOne" -a "Subject: Hello" /application/data/attach1 
>> /application/data/attach2 /application/data/attach3 <===
>>   ===> cat /tmp/attachments.abc |sendmail -S serverip:587 -f 
>> sertac at xxx.com.tr -t stulluk at hotmail.com -t 
>> sertac at xxx.com.tr -au"sxxx at m.com.tr" -ap"xxxxxxx"  <===
>>
>>   Up to here, it is ok. But then, I want to add some text message to the 
>> body of my e-mail, so I do as follows:
>>
>>   ===> makemime -c "text/plain" -o /tmp/text.abc /home/mail.txt <===
>>   ===> makemime -c "application/octet-stream" -o /tmp/attachments.abc 
>> /application/data/attach1 /application/data/attach2 
>> /application/data/attach3 <===
>>   ===> makemime -m "multipart/alternative" -a "Content-Disposition: 
>> inline" -o /tmp/textfinal.abc /tmp/text.abc <===
>>   ===> makemime -j /tmp/attachments.abc -o /tmp/output.msg /tmp/text.abc 
>> <===
>>
>>   In this point, size of attachments.abc is 934889bytes but the sizeof 
>> output.msg is only 742 bytes !!!
>
> Busybox's rudimentary makemime doesn't handle -m or -j (yet?)
>
> I will make it exit with error message on these optios,
> to stop fooling users.
>
> -- 
> vda
>