topic Re: Unable to received email attachments in Operating System - HP-UX

Unable to received email attachments

C_V — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 05:25:12 GMT

Hi Guys,

Please advise regarding this issue, i am able to sent email and is being received but the attachment is missing.

I use this code.

uuencode file.tar file.tar | mailx -s "file.tar"

Re: Unable to received email attachments

Mel Burslan — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 05:39:36 GMT

try this :

uuencode file.tar file.tar | mailx -m -s "file.tar"

-m means "Do not add MIME header lines". Newer versions of Micro$oft exchange, for some reason, do not like these headers, as I came to realize.

Hope this helps

Re: Unable to received email attachments

C_V — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:40:13 GMT

Hi thanks for the reply but still no attachment is received. test email content is just

begin 644 file.tar
4=&AI`
end

Re: Unable to received email attachments

Michael Steele_2 — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:03:16 GMT

The only thing I see is the bin file retaining a tar format extension, else, this works for me.

uuencode file.tar file.bin| mailx -s "file.tar"

-or just--

uuencode file.tar file | mailx -s "file.tar"

Unless its that the tar format that can't be converted. Try a plan ascii file.

Re: Unable to received email attachments

Steven Schweda — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:10:32 GMT

A Forum search for keywords like, say,
e-mail attachment
should find many old threads on this topic.

> [...] is being received but the attachment
> is missing.

It "is being received" where? Read using
what? Note that this (very old) "uuencode"
scheme does not yield a MIME-compliant
message, and some modern e-mail client
programs may not know what to do with it.
MIME-compliant alternatives exist.

Re: Unable to received email attachments

Wilfred Chau_1 — Wed, 04 May 2011 16:23:26 GMT

try
(uuencode file.tar file.tar.txt; echo "test") | mailx -m -s "file.tar"

Re: Unable to received email attachments

Bob_Vance — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:54:19 GMT

I have attached a little script that I wrote a while back that can be used, tweaked, or perused for ideas.

The script runs on HPUX and Linux.

It creates a multipart mime email, and can support a body, as well as an attachemnt.
The attachment can be any file, binary or text.

## mail_mime_attachment -h

usage: mail_mime_attachment \
[-s subject] \
[-b ] # body of e-mail file \
# if no -b, then uses standard input
-A # the file to be attached \
[-c CC: address] \
[-bc BCC: address] \
-t addressee name \
-a e-mail address

It uses sendmail directly.

It also uses 'base64', which is not part of HPUX, but which can be downloaded for free and 'make'ed, if you have a C compiler.

bv

Re: Unable to received email attachments

Bob_Vance — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:56:14 GMT

Here's an HPUX binary of base64 that runs on PArisc and Itanium 11.23 and 11.31. Probably runs on 11.11, as well.

bv

Re: Unable to received email attachments

EldoSkaria — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:46:21 GMT

the solution was clear and precise.

Thanks a lot.