topic Re: Problem with attach in mailx/sendmail in Operating System - HP-UX

Problem with attach in mailx/sendmail

R.O. — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:40:24 GMT

Hi,

I triyng to send a mail from HPUX 11.0 as follows:

- Must have subject and body
- Must have a file attached

I tried:

uencode /tmp/file1.txt file1.txt | mailx -m -s "TEST" adress1@xxx.com

and

uencode /tmp/file1.txt file1.txt | sendmail -v adress1@xxx.com

But, I do not know how to put the body and, in the other side, the attached file (in this case is a text file) arrives in a bad format.
Does anybody know how to put the body and how to "format" the text in the attachment to be readable as in the source?

Thxs in advance and regards,

R.O.

Re: Problem with attach in mailx/sendmail

Stefan Farrelly — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:08:48 GMT

You do it like this;

echo "Subject: " >/tmp/tempfile.$$
echo "" >>/tmp/tempfile.$$
uuencode >>/tmp/tempfile.$$

Then cat it into sendmail;

cat /tmp/tempfile.$$ | sendmail

Some mail programs may not like using sendmail as it formats differently to mailx, if you have a problem replace sendmail with maix in the cat command above.

Re: Problem with attach in mailx/sendmail

Chris Wilshaw — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:10:32 GMT

In order to make a unix doc readable via a Windows mail system, you use the ux2dos command.

Using sendmail:

(echo "test text\n";cat /etc/passwd | ux2dos | uuencode passwd.txt;echo "\ntest text2") | sendmail address

This sends a mail with the following as the body;

test text

** as attached file **

test.text2

The \n's are just to insert new lines to make the mail more readable.

the brackets () combine the echo's and cat command into a single output which is passed to sendmail

Re: Problem with attach in mailx/sendmail

Virgil Chereches_2 — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:58:12 GMT

You may also use metasend from http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Mail/mm-2.7/.
With metasend you have also the possibility to attach multiple files at the same time.
It will handle all email headers according with the MIME type you specify on the command line.
Best regards,
Virgil

Re: Problem with attach in mailx/sendmail

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:11:56 GMT

Try the script i'm attaching.

Its production, you can take pieces of it.

If it fails, have your smtp relay server checked.

SEP