Re: version 3.5: mail/mailx discard message body when attachment is supplied

Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Mar 2019 22:50:05 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.mailutils.bugs
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Hi Daniel,

> Are you aware of this report in debian about mail discarding stdin when
> being used to send an e-mail with an attachment?
> 
>     https://bugs.debian.org/918806

Thanks for reporting. I fixed it in 43214185092e714e0c233bf196f571bba5c17be0.

Meanwhile, you can use the --mime option as a workaround:

 echo "body text" | /usr/bin/mail --mime -s "some subject" -A "somefile.csv" [email protected]

Regards,
Sergey