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Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

Jonathan Welbon — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:31:12 GMT

From a script want to send emails with attachments out over the internet. Can the mailx utility do this. Is it possible to use the Cc and Bcc with mailx??

Re: Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

Bart Beeren — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:42:24 GMT

For sending for example text file as attachment and that it can be opened by Windows do the following:

ux2dos YourDocument|uuencode YourDocument.txt|mailx -m -s "Here is your text document" email@domain.com

(usage of cc and bcc I don't know)

BB

Re: Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

Pete Randall — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:44:54 GMT

Jonathon,

This is just a sample of the hits I came up with by doing a boolean search of the forums on +mailx +attachment:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x99da35067c18d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Adding cc and/or bcc might prove just as fruitful.

Good luck,
Pete

Re: Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

Pete Randall — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:46:49 GMT

Actually, Princess Paula's response in my previously identified thread addresses the Cc and Bcc issue, as well.

Pete

Re: Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:09:34 GMT

Hi,

Just do a search on the forum for the solution you are looking for and you'll have the solution in no time at all.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

Jonathan Welbon — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:22:10 GMT

Thank You very much Bart. You have opened a door I could biegin to open......but.....

All of the emails are empty. I want to send attachment but I also want some information in the email itself.

Attached is my script I am testing....

Re: Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:26:43 GMT

Hello,
uuencode filename filename | | sendmail emailid. or mailx mailx mailid

ex:

uuencode /etc/passwd passwd.hostname | sendmail user@domain

-USA..

Re: Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

Christophe MAILHE — Fri, 19 Jul 2002 08:23:43 GMT

If you want to send the file as attachement and not as part of the email, you need to use MIME.

I have attached a sample script I use to send text file as attachment.

Just replace "yourservername" by the hostname of your server and "yourcompany.com" by your domain name.

Chris.

Re: Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

Dave La Mar — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:07:15 GMT

Sorry you do not seem to have the answer you wish.
As I read this, you wish to send an email with an attachment and a message in the body.
If so, this should do it -

mailx -m -s "Some Title" someone@somewhere.com << EOF
`ux2dos some.fil | uuencode somefile.txt`

Type some message here for the body.

EOF

Best of Luck,
dl

Re: Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

A. Clay Stephenson — Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:42 GMT

One of the easist tolls is elm from the command line especially if you are sendiing multiple attachments and text.

Within the body of your email add this:

------------------------------------

This is my text. How are you?

[include /tmp/myattach application/octet-stream base64]

This is some more text in the middle.

[include /tmp/myexcel.xls application/ms-excel base64]

This is a closing message in the email.

----------------------------------------

That will attach /tmp/myattach and /tmp/myexcel.xls. You can include multiple attachments using this method.

Then to use it from a script:
elm -s "My Subject" dumbo@mailserver.com < myletter

Where myletter contains the attachment include statement as well as your message text. It is also necessary that you have a .elm directory
under the senders home directory because unlike the interactive version of elm the command-line version will not create a .elm directory automatically.

Re: Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

Ronald Cogen — Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:55:06 GMT

Hi,

/usr/bin/mailx -s "$LOCALHOST ...title ..." receiver@xxx.xx < /dir/file.dat

Make sure that your /etc/sendmail.cf has the appropriate parameters.

Regards,
Ron

Re: Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

Chua Wen Ching — Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:17:09 GMT

I think you just type:
mailx abc@hotmail.com < file.txt.

You can enter whatever email and file you want. :D

Cc and Bc i never try before.

From,
Chua Wen Ching :D

Re: Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 01:36:58 GMT

Here is a sendmail script that can do it.

I'm hoping you are flexible on which mail utility to use. sendmail handles attachments better.

I got this straight out of an hp forum but could not find the post.