topic Re: script send email attachment in Operating System - HP-UX

script send email attachment

kholikt — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:48:48 GMT

I am writing a script to send me a report file as attachment. This file is in pdf format. What should be content-type and enconding I should specify.

function func_send_email
{
(
echo "Content-Type: multipart/mixed"
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"
echo "From:$SEND_FROM"
echo "To:$1"
echo "Subject: $REPORT_TITLE"
cat < $2
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
}

Re: script send email attachment

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:36:24 GMT

One of the easiest and most powerful ways to do this via elm from the command line using the [include] syntax. Multiple attachments with mail text in between is very easy.

Within the body of your email add this:

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

This is my text. How are you?

[include /tmp/myattach application/octet-stream base64]

This is some more text in the middle.

[include /tmp/myexcel.xls application/ms-excel base64]

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.

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

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

Re: script send email attachment

Vibhor Kumar Agarwal — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:20:09 GMT

Try uuencode.

Re: script send email attachment

morganelan — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:26:54 GMT

Try use:
Content-Type: application/pdf

Re: script send email attachment

Luk Vandenbussche — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:38:57 GMT

Hi,

I am using the email client mutt for this

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Mail/mutt-1.5.9/

This is a script to send mail with mutt

DESTIN=your.email@company.com
SUBJECT="mail from unix server"
ATTACH1="/etc/passwd"
ATTACH2="/etc/hosts"
TEXTFILE=/etc/inittab

/usr/local/bin/mutt -a "$ATTACH1" -a "$ATTACH2" -i "$TEXFILE" -s
"$SUBJECT" $DESTIN << EOF >/dev/null 2>&1
EOF

You don't need to work with uuencode and uudecode

Re: script send email attachment

John Waller — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:51:10 GMT

I've attached a script I found on this forum I've called mail_files. Instructions on how to use the script are included at the top of the file.

Re: script send email attachment

Muthukumar_5 — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:12:14 GMT

Use as Content-type: application/pdf

hth.

Re: script send email attachment

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:16:17 GMT

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

SEP

Re: script send email attachment

Raj D. — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:58:08 GMT

Hi Kholikt,

You can include this line to send the attachment with email..

uuencode filename.ext filename.ext | mailx -s "Attached file from unix" yoruemail@domain.com

Enjoy ,
Cheers,
Raj.

Re: script send email attachment

Manuel Contreras — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:38:42 GMT

another that uses mutt...works like a charm.

install on your box, and never look back.