topic Re: sendmail with attachment script not working in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail with attachment script not working

Tonya Underwood — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:06:00 GMT

for x in $*
do

uuencode $x.info whatever | sendmail -fsomeuser@domain.com -t < /DR/headerfile

done

This is emailing just fine... only the attachment is not being attached... What is the problem?

Thanks!
Tonya Underwood

Re: sendmail with attachment script not working

Mark Greene_1 — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:07:12 GMT

Instead of piping to sendmail, pipe to mail or mailx which will handle the attachment correctly.

mark

Re: sendmail with attachment script not working

Geoff Wild — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:42:12 GMT

I'd use mailx as well...

But, this should work:

uuencode | sendmail someuser@domain.com

This thread may give you some ideas:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=183409

Rgds...Geoff

Re: sendmail with attachment script not working

Tonya Underwood — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:34:28 GMT

I must force it to send with the sender as someuser@domain.com and I am not aware of there being an equivalent -f option in mailx...

Re: sendmail with attachment script not working

John Kittel — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:44:59 GMT

I have accomplshed this task ( script to send uuencoded attachments via sendmail )... but I don't know if there is a simpler or better method than mine. Reading the previous responses to your question leads me to believe that it should possible to do it more easily than I have done, but here is my method; you can use it if you wish and/or if you get no better ideas. I have stripped out extraneous niceties such as handling multiple input files of various formats, input validation, etc. This is (almost) bare minimum. I am constructing the mail and mime headers in my script and including them in my pipe to sendmail. The boundary text is somewhat arbitrary, but not completely. If you try to use this, and if you don't understand how the boundaries are constructed, I suggest you leave them alone ( they way I have them), until you get it working, then modify if you desire.

Here you go...

#!/usr/bin/sh
From="me@myplace.com"
To="whomever@wherever.com"
Subject="uuencode attach test"
(
cat <

Re: sendmail with attachment script not working

John Kittel — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:49:05 GMT

BTW, when you call my script supply one argument, the name of a uuencodeable file, such as a gif file.

- John

Re: sendmail with attachment script not working

Michael Tully — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:54:22 GMT

I always use this example:

for e in `echo file1 file2 file3`
do
uuencode $e $e.txt
done | mailx -m -s "mymail" username@domain.com

Re: sendmail with attachment script not working

John Kittel — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:10:49 GMT

OK, even simpler, and improved version of my script, which also does the "sendmail -f" which you require:

#!/usr/bin/sh
From="john.kittel@kaisertwd.com"
To="john.kittel@doctor.kaisertwd.com"
Subject="uuencode attach test"
(
echo "Subject: $Subject"
echo "Mime-Version: 1.0"
echo "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"KACC.boundary.09112002\""
Base=`basename $1`
echo "--KACC.boundary.09112002"
echo "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$Base\""
echo "Content-Type: image; name=\"$Base\"; charset=US-ASCII"
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: uuencode"
echo ""
uuencode $1 $1.en
) | /usr/lib/sendmail -f$From $To
exit 0

- John

Re: sendmail with attachment script not working

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:25:54 GMT

The best I can do is provide a script that works.

My production version. Does a bit more than you like.

Two possibilities here:

1) Compare my methodology to your own and correct your script.
2) Modify mine to meet your needs.

Note that certain symmantec gateways need to be patched to correctly process these type of scripts. Translation: It may be your smtp gateway and not your script.

SEP

Re: sendmail with attachment script not working

Tonya Underwood — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:05:34 GMT

Thank you all so much... it's working now :)