From: Daniel Kelley <news-1123472598@...>
Date: 2005-08-08T12:51:10+09:00
Subject: Re: sending an email with an attachment in ruby

Matthew Margolis <mrmargolis@wisc.edu> writes:

> I would like to send email from a server running FreeBSD(TextDrive) to 
> my gmail account to make a weekly backup of my customer's website.  The 
> attachment that I need to be able to send will be a tgz and will be 
> around 15 MBs.  What are my options for constructing and sending this 
> mail via ruby?  
> 

I was hopting to show off something clever, but all I use is is 'metasend'.
The code below isn't complete, but it should give you an idea.


  #         
  # Mail the output file as an attachment
  #     
  def mail(addr, subject)
        
    # no point if no address or records generated
    if addr.nil? || @contact.length == 0 || @can_mail == false
      return false
    end

    a = addr.split(",")
    
    if a.length < 1
      raise "no email addresses"
    end
        
    args = [     
      "-b",   
      "-S", "4000000",
      "-f", @summary_output_file,
      "-m", "Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii",
      "-n",
      "-f", @csv_output_file,
      "-m", "application/octet-stream; name=\"#{@csv_output_file}\"",
      "-D", @csv_output_file,
      "-s", format_timestr(subject),
      "-t", a[0]
    ]
    if a.length > 1
      args << "-c"
      args << a[1..-1].join(",")
    end
    system("metasend", *args)
  end

Pretty boring. But it has worked since February of 2004.

d.k.

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