Syntax issue with sending email via mutt on EC2
amazon-ec2, mutt
Solution
In recent versions of mutt the `-a` option is designed to allow multiple arguments so that you can do `-a *.txt` to attach any number of files which match that pattern. Because of this it must be the last option used and separated from the recipients by `--`:
echo Sending Test | mutt -s "test email" -a test.txt -- name@example.com
Problem
I'm trying to send an email from my Amazon EC2 node using mutt and I'm getting an error that I'm assuming is syntax but I can't see what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to send an email with a txt attachment ``` echo "Sending Test" | mutt -a test.txt -s "test email" name@emaildomain.com ``` However I get the following errors: ``` Can't stat name@emaildomain.com: No such file or directory name@emaildomain.com: unable to attach file ``` It is clearly trying to attach a file that is the name of the email but I don't understand why. Any help would be greatly appreciated