Mac Terminal Sending Email with the Application

Question

I am trying to make a bash script that will send an email to all contacts that will contain a message and attachment. This is not for malicious purposes.

How can i do this? Is it possible? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Earlier I used uuencode for this:

uuencode source.txt destination.txt | mail -s "subject of mail" [e-mail] 

You can use this in your bash script. Example:

 uuencode /usr/bin/xxx.c MyFile.c | mail -s "mailing my c file" [e-mail] 

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Answer 2

You can also use AppleScript:

 tell application "Mail" tell (make new outgoing message) set subject to "subject" set content to "content" -- set visible to true make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:" [e-mail] ", name:"Name"} make new attachment with properties {file name:(POSIX file "/tmp/test.txt")} at after the last paragraph send end tell end tell 

You can use an explicit startup handler to pass arguments from the shell:

 osascript -e 'on run {a} set text item delimiters to ";" repeat with l in paragraphs of a set {contact, address} to text items of l end repeat end run' "Name1; [e-mail] Name2; [e-mail] "