topic Re: mailx - send an email with a file attachment in Operating System - HP-UX

mailx - send an email with a file attachment

Claus Schlotz — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:37:11 GMT

Hello,
i am using HP-UX 11.23 PARISC on an rp4440.
To send emails to our application users we are using the sendmail service. We do not had any problems in the past with sendind emails like this: cat filename < mailx -s "subject" username

Now we want so send the filename not within the email but as an attachment. Can someone help me?
Sendmail-Version is Sendmail 8.11.1/8.11.1
Thank You

Re: mailx - send an email with a file attachment

Pete Randall — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:39:14 GMT

uuencode

From the man page:
uuencode foo foo | mailx -s 'new program' friend
"

Pete

Re: mailx - send an email with a file attachment

Geoff Wild — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:41:15 GMT

Also have a look at this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=992688

Rgds...Geoff

Re: mailx - send an email with a file attachment

Gilbert Standen_1 — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:00:01 GMT

I have an excellent script that was written by Dave Wotton. I will try to attach it to this post for your use. If it doesn't attach, you can also download it from the http://www.consultingcommandos.com website. This script, written by Dave Wotton, allows you to add attachments (not append to body of email) to your unix emails. For example, if you attach a comma delimited file using this script to your unix command line email, your end user recipients will be able to just click on the attachment and have the .csv comma-delimited file open up as an excel spreadsheet.

Re: mailx - send an email with a file attachment

Geoff Wild — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:21:49 GMT

Gilbert - tried that script but get:

# mail_files
/usr/local/bin/mail_files[138]: shift: The specified number is not valid for this command.

Line 138 is the last line of this:

case "$1" in
-* ) : ;; # ignore it, let getopts handle flags
* ) TO=$1 ; shift ;;

Rgds...Geoff

Re: mailx - send an email with a file attachment

Dave La Mar — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:53:34 GMT

Claus -
Attached is an inhouse doc we use with multiple uses of mailx including tha attachment.

Feel free to use whatever is usefull.

Regards,

-dl

Re: mailx - send an email with a file attachment

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:52:14 GMT

Shalom,

Take a look at this script, it has code you can lift.

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

SEP

Re: mailx - send an email with a file attachment

Michael Skora — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:00:43 GMT

This works for us where the PDF is the attachment and the E-mail body text is whatever ASCII you put in filename.txt:

# (cat /home/filename.txt; uuencode /home/attach.pdf attach.pdf) | mailx -s 'SubjectLine'
-r replyable.email@yourcompany.com
recepient.email@theircompany.com

Hope it works for you.
Mike