Can't add file attachments

[seba]

Binary package hint: mutt

Welcome,

I have following problem with my desktop working under 9.10 Beta.

On my 8.04 i had using mutt for sending email with attachment.
Now i can't get it to work.

When i try execute following command

Code:

 mutt -a 'test.txt' -s 'subject' <email address hidden> <'test'

i got answer
Code:

bash: test: No such file or directory

But the ls shows

Code:

/tmp/test$ ls
test.txt

Bash script:
time=`date`
backup_file="/backup_dir/$(date +%d%m%y).zip"
mutt -s "Backup $time" -a "$backup_file" admin@xxx </backup_dir/content.txt

This don't work also in 9.10.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: acd4f3f0e3d549f6197752c11b793c2d
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Thu Oct 22 08:59:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mutt 1.5.20-4ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: mutt
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Rob W. Brooks (rob-atomicpenguin)]

I'd like to help with this bug, but I'll need little more information from you. In your first example you report that you are seeing:

bash: test: No such file or directory.

This is referring to your expected content of the message and not the attachment. (Try changing <'test' to <'example' in your first example.)

Can you provide the error response to your second example? If the error message begins with "bash" it means the shell (Bourne Again SHell (bash)) is reporting a problem with the command.

[seba (5-admin-starepro-info)]

Hello,

I use single quote and < 'test' because i want put word "test" inside e-mail content.

But i think it don't understand me.

When i run this:
mutt -a 'test.txt' -s 'subject' admin@xxx<'example'
I got:
bash: example: No such file or directory

But it doesn't work even if want put txt file.

LANG=en_EN.UTF-8 mutt -a 'test.txt' -s 'subject' admin@xxx <test.txt
Can't stat admin@xxx No such file or directory
admin@xxx: unable to attach file.
administrator@xxx-desktop:~/Desktop$

The test file exist
ls test.txt
output
test.txt

I think something wrong with that comands
mutt -a 'test.txt' -s 'subject' admin@xxx <test.txt

I swear it was working before. Maybe someone could try test it.
It's look like wrong order of parameters... but it was working...

Regards

[Andrew McCarthy (andrewmccarthy)]

It appears that how "-a" works has changed slightly. Previously you'd have to put a -- after the last filename only if there were two or more attachments: "mutt -a file1 file2 -- <email address hidden>". Now the -- is required for any number of attachments, even one: "mutt -a file -- <email address hidden>". Also, "-a" must be the last command-line option used before the e-mail address. See the man page for details. Can you try changing the line in your script to:

mutt -s "Backup $time" -a "$backup_file" -- admin@xxx </backup_dir/content.txt

and see how it goes?

[seba (5-admin-starepro-info)]

Welcome.

Thank you Andrew McCarthy now it's start working after adding "--" after attachments.

That's good news.

I think it can be marked as solved.
Regards

[Andrew McCarthy (andrewmccarthy)]

Great, closing the bug!