emailing log files as body text

[hm2k]

In an attempt to make the eggdrop logs searchable, I wrote a script (backuplogs.sh) which would send a copy of the logs by email so they could be searched from there.

I tried two methods, both of which had issues:

• (uuencode $filename $filename) | mail -s $subject $mailto
• mail -s "$subject" $mailto < "$file"

The issue are as follows:

• Email clients are unable to search contents of attachments
• The log file will not render as body text as the mail command attempts to parse the file for headers.

Possible solutions:

• Encode the body (not as an attachment)
• Escape the body so the text will not be rendered by the mail command

Unfortunately I've not worked out how to do this.

Any ideas?

 

[SirDice]

If it's plain text don't uuencode it. You can just add it.

% cat some_text | mailx -s 'my subject' me@example.com

 

[hm2k]

Awesome, I didn't expect that to work for some reason, but it did.

Cheers.

 

[Pushrod]

So how does one send a file as an attachment?

 

[SirDice]

So how does one send a file as an attachment?

Just uuencoding it should normally work. If you want a 'real' MIME attachment you'll have to use something like mail/mutt:
[cmd=]mutt -a somefile.jpg -s 'my subject' me@example.com < body.txt[/cmd]

 

[DutchDaemon]

mail/biabam is also nice (depends on bash, alas, but a nice simple prog nonetheless).

 

[Alt]

hm2k if your logs are managed by syslogd, you can pipe it to mail(1) from syslogd.conf when they rotating for example

 

[hm2k]

they aren't, they are eggdrop logs, however I'm sure somebody will find that tip useful.