topic Re: help,mailx question ???? in Operating System - HP-UX

help,mailx question ????

miaoxucheng — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:50:58 GMT

hi,expert !
I use "mailx" to send mails to my mail server on exchange server .but I found sometimes my mail's text and attachement are trucated ,but not always .
who can tell me why ? and how to correct this situation .
thanks a lot !

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Re: help,mailx question ????

harry d brown jr — Mon, 08 Apr 2002 01:01:04 GMT

How are you "uuencode"'ing your attachments? LIKE THIS:

for i in `echo filename1 filename2 filename3 ...`
do
uuencode $i $i.txt
done|mailx -m -s "test" username@whereever.com

live free or die
harry

Re: help,mailx question ????

Michael Tully — Mon, 08 Apr 2002 01:03:31 GMT

Hi,

What OS version, what patch revision do you have?. If it is only sometimes I would looking at the method and what pattern fails, if there is one. Do you have the correct entry in the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file?

e.g.
DSmailserver

~Michael~

Re: help,mailx question ????

Bill Hassell — Mon, 08 Apr 2002 01:59:44 GMT

Just a thought, but can you verify the contents with a simpler mailer like elm, or look at the actual ASCII text with vi? Exchange and Outlook (and PC helper programs)tend to hide information to avoid confusing you. You can do this by appending a local address on the machine sending the mailx message, something like this:

mailx -sSomeMessage user@exchange.addr.com,local_user_ID < somefile

Two copies of the message will be sent so you can verify the actual contents in /var/mail/local_user_ID or read it with elm.