topic Re: sendmail issue in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail issue

prashantb — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:23:16 GMT

how to send mail with file as attachment with the particular mail id in HPUX 11.23. I tried with mail,mailx,elm the file goes as a body of message and message send using mail id root@servername.xyz.com
How to resolve the issue?

Re: sendmail issue

Jeeshan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:45:01 GMT

Hi

See this thread

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=879014

Re: sendmail issue

Jeeshan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:55:21 GMT

Hi again

also see this thread

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1161579

Re: sendmail issue

Steven Schweda — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:02:49 GMT

Or do a forum search for terms like:
mail attachment

I believe that this problem has been solved
before.

Re: sendmail issue

Dennis Handly — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:27:49 GMT

You can also use shar(1) and mail that file.

If you don't need to automate it, you can install thunderbird and just use the shiny buttons in the GUI.

Re: sendmail issue

OFC_EDM — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:31:46 GMT

uuencode /path/filename1 filename1 | mailx -m -s "subject" tosomeone@somewhere.com

filename1 and filename1a are the same.

But you can change the name of the attached file by changing filename1a to get past filters.

For example

uuencode /tmp/somefile.zip somefile.txt | mailx -m -s "subject" tosomeone@somewhere.com

The file sent will be somfile.zip
The name of the attachment will be somefile.txt.

Cheers

Re: sendmail issue

prashantb — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:42:55 GMT

The sloution is workng fine but the mail id by which mail send is root@hpsrv1.com
Is it possible to put valid mail id for sender.

Re: sendmail issue

OFC_EDM — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:02:36 GMT

Which solution did you go with?
Can you provide sample?

Re: sendmail issue

OFC_EDM — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:07:29 GMT

Use the -r option to change the address of the sender.

I.E. As root from server testhpux want to send email as if it came from john@testhpux

echo test | mailx -s "subject" -r john@testhpux.com someuser@out.there

Re: sendmail issue

prashantb — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:02:36 GMT

Thanks Kevin and all who help to find the solution. Final working pattern for the same is as below,

(uuencode /mail.txt mail.txt)|mailx -m -s "report" -r psb@hotmail.com ravi@yahoo.com

Re: sendmail issue

Sajjad Sahir — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:37:03 GMT

Dear Prashanth

u can use mailx -r command

r for specific address

thanks and regards

sajjad

Re: sendmail issue

OFC_EDM — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:38:38 GMT

prashantb,

Why'd you have to use the ( ) in the uuencode part of the line?

Are you running from a script?

Just curious...

Also don't forget points for those who helped

Cheers

Re: sendmail issue

prashantb — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:56:05 GMT

Yes I use teh same in script.