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uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

Deepu Chakravarty — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 05:21:52 GMT

1.we are using 'uuencode' for sending email with attachment. Using 'uuencode' email with pdf attachment in internal network is okay. But when we send email outside our domain (like yahoo.com) the attachment gets jumbled. The attachment is not going as it is.
2. We need to send multiple (cc)of the same emails.

Help is required of the above two.

Thanks in advance.

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:08:21 GMT

Shalom Deepu,

You can use the script I attach or pull code out of it.

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

SEP

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

Deepu Chakravarty — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:34:20 GMT

Hi SEP,

Thanks for the script. But I can't use this script because I have to use single line command with 'host'.

My requirement is to send mail with pdf attachment from my unix box. I am using 'uuencode' with mailx for the purpose.

Problem is that the mail is going to the desired email address but pdf attachment is not going.

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

Raj D. — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:40:54 GMT

Deepu ,

You can try this :

1. # uuencode file.pdf file.pdf | mailx -s "PDF file attached" yourname@domain.com

cheers,
Raj.

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

Deepu Chakravarty — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:59:45 GMT

Hi,
The external mail is not getting output as an attachement. The pdf attachment is getting attached in the body of the mail as follows:

Subject: AIS Advanced Shipment Notice

begin 644 o5564027.pdf
M)5!$1BTQ+C$*,2`P(&]B:@H\/`HO0W)E871OM"B]#M075T:&]R("A/M(&1R:79EM;V)J"CP\"B]4>7!E("]086=E

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

jon2 — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:07:25 GMT

If the mail goes internally okay but externally it is not is the corruption happening at the point of attachment or when it passes through a mail gateway?

Try compress or gzip prior to attachment.
(maybe this can be on the fly with
cat x.pdf |compress |uuencode - /tmp/x.pdf.Z |mailx -s "file" dest1@host2 dest2@host3

I think just adding a second dest will send a second copy for you.

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

Deepu Chakravarty — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:47:23 GMT

cat o5597927.pdf |compress |uuencode - o5597927.pdf.Z |mailx -s "Test new" abc@yahoo.com

Giving following error:
-: No such file or directory
Null message body; hope that's ok

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

harry d brown jr — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:02:09 GMT

You need to use the "DASH m" option to be able to correctly include mime encoded data:

mailx -m -s "Test new" abc@yahoo.com

live free or die
harry d brown jr

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

Deepu Chakravarty — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:13:46 GMT

Dash -m is okay. But filename should also be givien. Pls verify.

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

Sandman! — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:07:44 GMT

Hi Deepu,

To send attachments to webmail clients like Yahoo do the following steps:

1. Create an empty file with a blank line at the top as follows:
# echo > your_mail_file

2. Verify that the size of the file is 1 byte:
# ll your_mail_file

3. uuencode the PDF file appending its output to your_mail_file:
# uuencode o5564027.pdf o5564027.pdf >> your_mail_file

4. E-mail the file to your Yahoo account using mailx as follows:
# cat your_mail_file | mailx -m -s "subject_goes_here" abc@yahoo.com

hope it helps!

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

harry d brown jr — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:55:14 GMT

uuencode /opt/ignite/share/doc/iuxguide.pdf iuxguide.pdf | mailx -m -s "test pdf" name@domain

live free or die
harry d brown jr

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

Dave La Mar — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:43:00 GMT

I'm going to side with Harry's answer.

Attached is a few wxamples that are used in our shop.

Regards,

dl

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

Deepu Chakravarty — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:27:19 GMT

Sandy,
Has done very good job(10/10). His clear steps really resolved my problem. This should be archived for future reference.

Thanks.

Re: uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

Deepu Chakravarty — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:30:37 GMT

Sandman's suggestions resolved my query.
Thanks. His suggestions should be archived for future reference.