topic sendmail attachments in rtf in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail attachments in rtf

Jeroen_D — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 05:16:07 GMT

Hi,

we are trying to send attachments via email which are in RTF.

This is part of the script :
(
echo "Subject: Baan *MAILME_RTF* result"
echo
uuencode $1 MAILME$$.rtf
)| mail $LOGNAME
touch /tmp/mailtouch

It appears however that the recipient does not get a proper formatting.

This is the content of /usr/share/lib/mailx.rc:

set append
set asksub
set dot
set crt=21
set PAGER=/usr/bin/more
set save
set encoding=8bit
set charset=us-ascii

Is this configuration wrong ? Do I need another charset ? Or should I use mailx instead of mail in the first script ?

I don't know much about the uuencode either. Any info is greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Jeroen.

Re: sendmail attachments in rtf

Madhu Sudhan_1 — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 05:20:43 GMT

uuencode some_file file_name_of_attachment.rtf | sendmail someone@somedom.com

This works for me.

I have never tried sending attachments using mailx.

Thanks,
Madhu

Re: sendmail attachments in rtf

Stefan Farrelly — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 05:20:53 GMT

We just send attachments in one of 2 ways - depending on what mail system you use;

uuencode | sendmail -v
or
uuencode | mailx -s"subject"

It always comes out fine as an attachment - using MS Exchange/Outlook.