topic Re: elm attachments in Operating System - HP-UX

elm attachments

Craig Warnholtz — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:16:28 GMT

On hp-ux 10.20 I send attachments using the following command:
uuencode file.txt file.txt|elm user@abc.com

This no longer works under hp-ux 11.0. The encoded attachment is placed into the body of the message!
Why does this no longer work? Do I need a patch for elm?

Thanks
Craig

Re: elm attachments

S.K. Chan — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:37:57 GMT

You can work around that by adding the mime header ..
$ vi file.txt
==> add this line to at the top of the file ..
[include file.txt text/plain base64]

Then try this ..
$ elm user@abc.com < file.txt

It works for me when I send it to my yahoo account. I'm not sure if there's such patch for 11.x.

Re: elm attachments

Craig Warnholtz — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:59:05 GMT

When I add this..
[include file.txt text/plain base64]

and try this ..
$ elm user@abc.com < file.txt

file.txt gets sent as an attachment and is included in the message body.

Why does the original method work for 10.20 but not for 11.0?

Re: elm attachments

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:59:54 GMT

Attached is a handy dandy script that should work. You may need or want to do a few mods but here its production.

elm patches are always good, but I don't like your current methodology.

SEP

Re: elm attachments

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:16:23 GMT

File attachment using uuencode works well with 11.00.

instead of elm try using sendmail

uuencode filetobattached filename | sendmail email-id.

-USA..

Re: elm attachments

Craig Warnholtz — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:43:46 GMT

Thanks Steven, I switched to sendmail using some of the code from your script.

Much appreciated.
Craig