[ale] Script to send email with attachments

[James Sumners]

Well, it gets tricky. I don't know if your specified clients support
scripting. So the only thing I can think of is a shell script, but
that means encoding the attachments yourself. It would probably be
easiest to do it in Perl. Here is an example --
http://www.akadia.com/services/email_attachments_using_perl.html .

Personally, I wouldn't want to receive a flood of emails just to get
some pictures. I would prefer to have a link sent to me. I.E. put the
pictures in a zip file and host it somewhere just long enough for the
recipient to download it.

Or, if that is too confusing, something like this might be useful --
http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/showcase/gallery/ .

On 9/23/07, tom <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
> Well, looking back I did imply putting about 80 attachments in the one
> email. My bad. Although I might just try it to see if Yahoo will bounce
> it. I know a few other services I need to send pictures through will.
>
> What I had in mind, and apparently didn't ask clearly (sorry), was
> scripting attachment of the pictures over multiple emails. This results in
> some advantages. First, getting under most size limits for various email
> services. Second, while I have never met the person who is to recieve the
> pictures, I do know that they use Windows. I need to keep things dirt
> simple to reduce the chances of confusion. Third, I'd like to have this
> type ability filed away in my skill locker for use later. I get to send
> multiple pictures to relatives with painfully limited computer skills on a
> regular basis, and one to four picture attachments per email seems like
> the least likely to cause confusion.
>
> Still, I do like the idea of a giant tarball showing up in an email. Just
> a might bit risky in this case.


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