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SENDFILES(1mh)                                                  SENDFILES(1mh)

NAME
       sendfiles - send multiple files by MIME message with nmh

SYNOPSIS
       sendfiles [-help] [-version] [-compress bzip2 | compress | gzip | lzma
            | none]
            [-from sender] [-delay n | -n]
            -to recipient -subject subject | recipient subject
            file/directory1 [file/directory2 ...]

DESCRIPTION
       The shell script sendfiles is used to send a collection  of  files  and
       directories via electronic mail.

       sendfiles  will archive the files and directories you name with the tar
       command, and then mail the compressed archive to the  "recipient"  with
       the  given  "subject".  The archive will be automatically split up into
       as many messages as necessary in order to get past most mailers.

       The -to switch specifies the recipient.  The -subject switch  specifies
       the  subject.  Alternatively, these two required values can be provided
       without their corresponding switch names.

       The -from switch can, and should, be used to specify the sender's mail-
       box  (name  and  email address).  Alternatively, the PERSON environment
       variable can be used for the same purpose.  If neither is  used,  send-
       files will supply a "From:" header field using the sender's local mail-
       box, see localmbox in mh-format(5).

       The -compress command line switch can be used to override the  run-time
       determination  of the compression program by sendfiles.  -compress none
       (alternatively, -none) disables compression.

       Sometimes you want sendfiles to pause after posting a partial  message.
       This  is  usually  the case when you are running sendmail and expect to
       generate a lot of partial messages.  The -delay  switch  specifies  the
       number of seconds to pause in between postings, e.g.,

            sendfiles -delay 30 -to recipient -subject "subject" files ...

       will  pause  30  seconds in between each posting.  An alternate form of
       the switch with just the delay time, -30, for  example,  is  also  sup-
       ported.

   Extracting the Received Files
       When  these  messages are received, invoke mhstore once for the list of
       messages.  The default is for mhstore to store the combined parts as  a
       new  message  in the current folder, although this can be changed using
       storage formatting strings.  You can then use mhlist to find out what's
       inside;  possibly  followed  by mhstore again to write the archive to a
       file where you can subsequently uncompress and untar it.  For instance:

            % mhlist 5-8
             msg part  type/subtype             size description
               5       message/partial           47K part 1 of 4
               6       message/partial           47K part 2 of 4
               7       message/partial           47K part 3 of 4
               8       message/partial           18K part 4 of 4
            % mhstore 5-8
            reassembling partials 5,6,7,8 to folder inbox as message 9
            % mhlist -verbose 9
             msg part  type/subtype             size description
               9       application/octet-stream 118K
                         (extract with uncompress | tar xvpf -)
                         type=tar
                         conversions=compress
            % mhstore 9
            % uncompress < 9.tar.Z | tar xvpf -

       Alternately, by using the -auto switch, mhstore will  automatically  do
       the extraction for you:

            % mhlist 5-8
             msg part  type/subtype             size description
               5       message/partial           47K part 1 of 4
               6       message/partial           47K part 2 of 4
               7       message/partial           47K part 3 of 4
               8       message/partial           18K part 4 of 4
            % mhstore 5-8
            reassembling partials 5,6,7,8 to folder inbox as message 9
            % mhlist -verbose 9
             msg part  type/subtype             size description
               9       application/octet-stream 118K
                         (extract with uncompress | tar xvpf -)
                         type=tar
                         conversions=compress
            % mhstore -auto 9
            -- tar listing appears here as files are extracted

       As  the  second  tar  listing is generated, the files are extracted.  A
       prudent user will never put -auto in the .mh_profile file.  The correct
       procedure  is  to  first use mhlist to find out what will be extracted.
       Then mhstore can be invoked with -auto to perform the extraction.

FILES
       $HOME/.mh_profile          The user profile

PROFILE COMPONENTS
       Path:                To determine the user's nmh directory
       Current-Folder:      To find the default current folder

SEE ALSO
       mhbuild(1), mhlist(1), mhshow(1), mhstore(1), mh-format(5)

       Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation (RFC 934)

DEFAULTS
       `-delay 0'
       `-from localmbox'

CONTEXT
       None

nmh-1.7.1                         2012-11-14                    SENDFILES(1mh)