topic Re: mail format in Operating System - HP-UX

mail format

matthew mills — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:16:58 GMT

Sorry about the last tread. What I wrote was confusing. I can send a file from my HPUX 11.00 server to the user. But when the user opens the file in word the page break shows up as a “^L”. How can I send it so that the “^L” is a page break?
I send the file using:
uuencode emaildoc.lst emaildoc.doc | sendmail

Re: mail format

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:25:20 GMT

I attached a script to the last thread that has the correct code for the job. Just look at the script and take the code you want.

snippet

uuencode $attfile $flename >> $fmesg
cat $fmesg | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
-- end snippet.

Don't forget to check any smtp gateway boxes. You can do everything right and the smtp relay server can mangle the email.

SEP

Re: mail format

Orhan Biyiklioglu — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:35:07 GMT

You should try to convert the file into dos format before uuencode ing and sending

ux2dos emaildoc.lst > emaildoc2.lst
uuencode emaildoc2.lst emaildoc.doc | sendmail

should work.

Re: mail format

Bill Thorsteinson — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:43 GMT

Control L (^L) is the page break character.
Not all software recognizes it though.
Printers should handle it correctly, even
if the screen doesn't.

Re: mail format

matthew mills — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:44:51 GMT

thanks