Attachments outbound

There are several different ways to add attachments.

You need to be careful to specify your mime-types sensibly, so that the receiving system knows what to do with the file.

Rule 1. Buld your own SMTP header

In general these copy flows require you to build the email and its html header from scratch, and not allow ipsmtp to generate its own header for you.

This requires ipsmtp to be run with a -H switch. This says that you will be providing your own header, which you will create with the xchg below ...If you are already running ipsmtp, this may mean that you are adding a second instance of it in the system file.

It would be something link this

mail    local   ipsmtp -h mailhost -f -H

or if a second instance, perhaps it would need to spool a second queue, so would be

mail    local   ipsmtp -q 2smtp2 -h mailhost -f -H

Copy flows

The following links demonstrate a number of xchgs and copy flows for producing attachments ..

Create an HTML Email

• Create HTML Email

Create an attachment from a jpeg file

• Create an email with an attachment? - take a file (a jpeg say) and encode it and email it.