How to send mail with bash without attachment

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I'm trying to send a mail with a subject, a unique receiver, and few lines of text in the body. Almost everything is working as expected, except the body gets attached as a file instead of being in the mail's body.

Here is my code:

destinataire="[email protected]"
obj="** ALERTE BACKUP sur $host pour le dump DB de $db** "
body="Erreur lors du dump de la DB $db sur l'hote $host\n"
body="$body - Code erreur: $ret\n"
body="$body - Env: $prodfolder\n"
body="$body \n\nMail envoyé a $destinataire"
echo $body | mail -s "$obj" ${destinataire}

The content of $body gets transformed into a file, and attached to the mail. I don't understand what I am doing wrong, or if there is any additional configuration to do?

your example works fine with me... check stackoverflow.com/questions/18621899/… as well — xlembouras
– xlembouras, Commented Jan 24, 2014 at 15:12
@xlembouras Cheers, it was due to french character in the body. — renard
– renard, Commented Jan 24, 2014 at 15:19
@renard Maybe put this in a separate answer and tick it off as "correct" for others who run into similar issues... — Thomas
– Thomas, Commented Jan 24, 2014 at 15:20

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:11:43Z

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Thanks to xlembouras, and this post, the problem as been solved:

Language-specific characters such as é combined with default encoding set to UTF-8 (on the system the mail is being sent from) leads the body of the message to be transferred as attachment instead of raw text.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:11

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answered Jan 24, 2014 at 15:24

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Thomas · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-24 15:10:11Z

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Try this instead:

mail -s "$obj" ${destinataire} <<EOF
Erreur lors du dump de la DB $db sur l'hote $host
 - Code erreur: $ret
 - Env: $prodfolder



Mail envoyé a $destinataire
EOF

answered Jan 24, 2014 at 15:10

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