topic Attachments in Operating System - HP-UX

Attachments

John Booth_1 — Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:36:28 GMT

I am looking for a mail program that will allow me to attach files to an email. I need it to be a attachment! All the programs I have tried just allow me to append the data from the attachment to the e-mail. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You,

Re: Attachments

Joseph C. Denman — Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:43:30 GMT

How about???

uuencode filename filename | mailx -m -s "Subject" his.name@his.domain.com

...jcd...

Re: Attachments

linuxfan — Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:12:39 GMT

Hi John,

There are multiple ways you can do this.

Joseph already gave one such way.

Elm is another mail program you can use(though it isn't very straight forward or easy). This thread talks about that.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x41950559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

-HTH
Ramesh

Re: Attachments

Sachin Patel — Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:19:06 GMT

Hi
Many ways
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x4be6f9beca68d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

Sachin

Re: Attachments

Gregory Fruth — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:06:23 GMT

Perl's MIME::Entity can be used to add MIME attachments
to an SMTP mail message. If your SMTP <-> whatever
mail gateway is halfway decent it ought to be able to
access the MIME attachments. Example:

use MIME::Entity;

$toAddress = 'somebody@somewhere.com';
$body = 'this is the message body';
$filename = 'somefile.gif';
$buf = '';

open(FILE, "<$filename");
while (1) {
last if (read(FILE, $chunk, 65536) == 0);
$buf .= $chunk;
}
close(FILE);

$mime = build MIME::Entity(Type => 'multipart/mixed',
To => $toAddress,
Subject => 'file transmission');
$mime->attach(Type => 'text/plain',
Disposition => 'inline',
Encoding => 'quoted-printable',
Data => $body);
$mime->attach(Type => 'application/octet-stream',
Filename => $filename,
Disposition => 'attachment',
Encoding => 'base64',
Data => $buf);

open(MAIL, "| /usr/sbin/sendmail $toAddress");
print(MAIL $mime->stringify());
close(MAIL);