topic Re: Sendmail file attachment in Operating System - HP-UX

Sendmail file attachment

system administrator_15 — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 04:39:23 GMT

Hi guys i have two questions firstly i have written a script in which i need to send a file attachment via either sendamail or mailx,
i have looked at both man pages and maybe im giong blind, but i can't see and option to allow this
can anyone tell me how.
also i have stopped recieving forum notification updates and i used to and haven't changed anything, but yet don't recieve them anymore.
regards
andy

Re: Sendmail file attachment

Robert-Jan Goossens — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 04:42:43 GMT

Hi Andy,

Try next link.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0xfb179607df6ed711abdc0090277a778c%2C00.html&forumId=2&admit=716493758+1066383722274+28353475

Regards,

Robert-Jan.

Re: Sendmail file attachment

twang — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 04:42:50 GMT

# uuencode |mail user@domain.com

Re: Sendmail file attachment

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:15:57 GMT

Forum notification is being worked on.

If you are using a relay server for smtp, make sure its patched. They can play havoc with really perfectly good scripts.

I'm attaching my script though.

Just for reference. Its production.

SEP

Re: Sendmail file attachment

Geoff Wild — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 07:46:15 GMT

Get mpack - works great:

mpack/munpack version 1.5 for unix

Mpack and munpack are utilities for encoding and decoding
(respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions) format mail messages. For compatibility with older forms
of transferring binary files, the munpack program can also decode
messages in split-uuencoded format.

http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Users/mpack-1.5/readme.html

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Sendmail file attachment

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:37:22 GMT

My favorite method is to use elm because multiple attachments with text in-between is so easy. Elm will work just fine from the command line as well as interactively. I have scripts that use it that are run everyday.

Within the body of your email add this:

------------------------------------

This is my text. How are you?

[include /tmp/myattach application/octet-stream base]

This is some more text in the middle.

[include /tmp/myexcel.xls application/ms-excel base]

This is a closing message in the email.

----------------------------------------

That will attach /tmp/myattach and /tmp/myexcel.xls. You can include multiple attachments using this method. If you are running 10.20 make sure that you have a MIME enabled version of elm (PHNE_15835 or later).

Then to use it from a script:
elm -s "My Subject" user@mailserver.com < myletter

Where myletter contains the attachment include statement as well as your message text. It is also necessary that you have a .elm directory
under the sender's home directory because unlike the interactive version of elm the command-line version will not create a .elm directory automatically.

Regards, Clay

Re: Sendmail file attachment

Todd McDaniel_1 — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:52:29 GMT

Here is a great script from a poster on www.unix.com MB...

Handles 1 message and 1 attachment.. can be modified to handle multiple attachments.

Re: Sendmail file attachment

doug mielke — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:46:39 GMT

a very simple command for attachments is:

mailx me@myaddress.com < attachmentname

Re: Sendmail file attachment

Dave La Mar — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:07:47 GMT

Andy-
As you can see, there are a multitude of good ways to do this.
In our shop this is one common way using mailx.
Build the file for the mailx process to look similar to the following:
mailx -m -s "Hello" someone@somewhere.com <<-END
`ux2dos file_name_one | uuencode file_name_one.txt`
`ux2dos file_name_two | uuencode file_name_two.txt`
This is all you get.
END

This sends two file attachments to someone@somewhere.com with a subject of Hello and a body of "This is all you get."
OR
From the command line:
echo "This is all you get." | ux2dos file_name_one | uuencode file_name_one.txt |ux2dos file_name_two | uuencode file_name_two.txt | mailx -m -s "Hello" someone@somewhere.com

Then there are options to doing a CC and BC as well.
Best of luck.

Regards,
dl

Re: Sendmail file attachment

Dave La Mar — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:47:54 GMT

Andy -
Actually, attached is a text file with a number of ways to use mailx.

Best regards,
dl

Re: Sendmail file attachment

Rita C Workman — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:32:50 GMT

Like Clay, I am a user of the 'include'. We find it works quite well, especially when using it within a script for multiple files. You can send them using any number of options, from text to Excel file types...

Here's an old thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F0%2C%2C0x41950559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1066419055845+28353475

Regards,
Rita

Re: Sendmail file attachment

Todd McDaniel_1 — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:12:38 GMT

Doug,

your example is only for a message to be sent, not for a TRUE attachment sent with a message.

Unless Im really mistaken, mailx doesnt support attachments, not in the true sense of an attachment. If you want to try, send a binary file wiht mailx and see that you get a jumble of characters...

I believe ELM does allow real attachments, but I have never used that feature.