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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU mailutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2016-12-17 +GNU mailutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2017-01-13 Copyright (C) 2002-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of file for copying conditions. @@ -7,6 +7,54 @@ Please send mailutils bug reports to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>. Version 3.1.90 (Git) +* mail + +** Modifying attachment name and filename + +Two new options are provided for modifying attachment name (a.k.a +description), and file name: + + --content-name=STRING + Sets the attachment name (description). Technically speaking, it + is the "name" parameter in the Content-Type MIME header. + + --content-filename=NAME + Sets the file name (the "filename" parameter in the + Content-Description MIME header of the outgoing message. + +Both options affect only the next `--attach' or `--attach-fd' option. + +* Constructing attachments from command line + +The new option `--attach-fd=N' instructs mail to read attachment from +file descriptor N. By default, the attachments created using this +option are unnamed, i.e. neither name parameter of the Content-Type +header, nor the filename parameter of the Content-Disposition header +are set. Use the --content-name and --content-filename options to +change these. + +The option `--attach-fd=0' causes attachment to be read from the +standard input. The option `--attach=-' has the same effect. For +obvious reasons, the interactive mode is suppressed in this case. + +The `--attach-fd' option is useful when calling `mail' from another +program. + +Example: + +Suppose that the 'mail' binary is opened at file descriptor 5 and +the mail.c file is opened at descriptor 6, the following command +line sends them as attachments: + + mail --encoding=base64 \ + --content-type=application/octet-stream \ + --content-name="the mail(1) binary" --content-filename="mail" \ + --attach-fd=5 \ + --encoding=binary\ + --content-type=text/plain --content-name="mail.c source file"\ + --content-filename=mail.c --attach-fd=6 \ + root@example.org + Version 3.1.1 - 2016-12-15 |