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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 elec‐
       tronic 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 au‐
       tomatically 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.  Alterna‐
       tively, 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 mailbox (name and email ad‐
       dress).  Alternatively, the PERSON environment variable can be used for the same purpose.  If
       neither  is used, sendfiles 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 compres‐
       sion.

       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 supported.

   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)