topic mailx or other mail utility in Operating System - HP-UX

mailx or other mail utility

Joe Profaizer — Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:17:30 GMT

Do you know if it is possible to send an attachment when using mailx on Unix? I must have the file sent as an attachment, thus the text of the attachment can't be included in the recipient's email.

Thanks,

..Joe

Re: mailx or other mail utility

Dan Hetzel — Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:49:29 GMT

Hi Joe,

Here is a reply that has been posted by Chris Anoruo a while ago:

There are three ways to send and attachment.
#(1) Send in body of e-mail mailx -s 'Subject Lines goes here' user@company.com < filename.txt
#(2) To send as an attachment /usr/bin/uuencode filename.Z filename.Z | /usr/sbin/sendmail user@company.com
#(3) To send as an attachment with Subject, From and To
(
echo "From: "
echo "To: "
echo "Subject: "
echo "This is the body of the e-mail.
If you are having any problem with this file please give us a call.

"
/usr/bin/uuencode /local/filename filename
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail user@company.com

Best regards,

Dan

Re: mailx or other mail utility

Rita C Workman — Tue, 09 Jan 2001 16:09:42 GMT

Here's a url to show my personal preference for mailing attached files.....Just so you have more choices....

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x41950559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

/rcw

Re: mailx or other mail utility

MARTINACHE — Tue, 09 Jan 2001 17:37:53 GMT

Hi,

I suggest you to use mpack.

This a free small utility which very simple :

You will find it there :
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Users/mpack-1.5/

Re: mailx or other mail utility

Darrel Louis — Tue, 09 Jan 2001 17:51:09 GMT

Joe,

If you do a search in the forum, you will see several documents.

-m Do not add MIME header lines Mime Version, Content Type & Content Encoding to the header information while sending mails.

example
# uuencode /tmp/testfile testfile.txt | mailx -m -s 'testje' test@mail.com

Check the following discussion:
http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xa408a24d9abcd4118fef0090279cd0f9!0,00.html

Also check "man mailx "

Good Luck