On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote: > I have a user w/o a shell that runs an app as a daemon that needs to use > mutt to email an attachment from a script. > > During testing when the app was ran as root everything worked:) Now that > we obviously are running as a user w/o a shell this little bit broke. I > used mutt as I needed to send the attachment as mime, and the ability > to specify a muttrc from the cli when executed was useful so we could tweak > the mail headers etc... > > Since there is no local mb's at all on this server, are there any mutt gurus > that know off hand how I can manipulate the behavior of mutt to simply send > w/o looking for a mailbox? > > Thanks, > jlc > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I'm not a mutt guru, but sending attachments from cli is terribly simple using uuencode. If possible, you could try something like: uuencode /path/to/attachment | mail -s <subject here> <destination address> I don't think the command would fail given the user doesn't have a shell or/and a local mailbox.