topic Re: Send multiple attachments with sendmail in Operating System - HP-UX

Send multiple attachments with sendmail

PM Srividhya — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:04:56 GMT

Hi,

I want to send multiple attachments from the sendmail utility (or any other e-mail utility in HP-UX).

I'm able to attach one file with the following script:

#! /usr/bin/ksh
# Arguments : -f -t -c -s -b -a

#For Eg. sendMail -t user@host.com -c user1@host1.com -s subject -b body -a attach.txt

while getopts 'f:t:c:s:b:a:' opt
do
case $opt in
f)
fromAddress=$OPTARG
;;
t)
toAddress=$OPTARG
;;
c)
ccAddress=$OPTARG
;;
s)
subject=$OPTARG
;;
b)
body=$OPTARG
;;
a)
attachment=$OPTARG
;;
:)
print "$OPTARG need an argument"
exit 1
;;
\?)
print "$OPTARG need a value"
exit 1
;;
esac
done

if [ -z "$toAddress" ] || [ -z "$subject" ] || [ -z "$body" ] || [ -z "$attachment" ]
then
print "Error: To Address, Subject and Body of the mail and attachment are required arguments"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f $attachment ] || [ ! -r $attachment ]
then
print "$attachment is not a readable file"
exit 1
fi

boundary='=== This is the boundary between parts of the message. ==='
{
print - "From: <${fromAddress}>"
print - "To: <${toAddress}>"
print - "Cc: <${ccAddress}>"
if [ -n $subject ]
then
print - 'Subject:' $subject
fi
print - 'MIME-Version: 1.0'
print - 'Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; '
print - ' BOUNDARY='\"$boundary\"
print -
print -
print - "--${boundary}"
print - 'Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII'
print -
cat $body
print -
print -
print - "--${boundary}"
print - 'Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name='$attachment
print - 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='$attachment
print -
cat $attachment
print -
print - "--${boundary}--"
} | /usr/lib/sendmail "${toAddress} ${ccAddress}"

Could any body please help me how to do it for multiple attachments?

Thanks,
Vidhya

Re: Send multiple attachments with sendmail

Peter Godron — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:23:48 GMT

Hi Vidhya,

Please see:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=708917
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=52454
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=79132

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.

Your profile shows you have so far only rewarded 1 answer of 14 !

Re: Send multiple attachments with sendmail

Court Campbell — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:49:39 GMT

tarball all the attachments, then use uuencode.

uuencode tarball tarball | mailx -s "subject" to@me.org

Re: Send multiple attachments with sendmail

Arturo Galbiati — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:49:38 GMT

Hi,
by mail:

mail -t <Subject: test
From:
Cc:
bcc:
$(ux2dos test.txt|uuencode test.txt)
$(ux2dos test.html|uuencode test.html)
EOF

HTH,
Art

N.B. Please remeber to assign points

Re: Send multiple attachments with sendmail

Dave La Mar — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:19:01 GMT

Vidhya -
You have many fine examples here. Allow me to ads an additional set of examples in the attached.

Regards,
-dl

Re: Send multiple attachments with sendmail

PM Srividhya — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:52:20 GMT

Thanks all for the replies. I'm using the one suggested by Art to use uuencode along with mail and it works the way i'm looking for.
Thanks Art... (I should have given more points to you :O))

Re: Send multiple attachments with sendmail

PM Srividhya — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:55:00 GMT

Thanks for all replies.