topic Re: Mail from command line in Operating System - HP-UX

Mail from command line

ICT Infrastructure — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:23:46 GMT

I want to send file attachments from the commandline (sendmail)
currently i have only found syntax for elm to send a file as an email not as an attachment.
The sysntax i have used is :-
elm -s "subject" User@server < filename

can anyone tell me how to send tha file as an attachment please

Thanks

Re: Mail from command line

Charles Harris — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:33:27 GMT

This is the hunt for the holy grail as far as I'm concerned, I have included a file in the body of an email but never as a real attachment. I've asked quite a few people about this and the general responce is that it can't be done (with mailx) at least, wether or not this is true remains to be seen, although I'll be watching closely to see where this one goes!!!

Cheers,

-ChaZ-

Re: Mail from command line

Thierry Poels_1 — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:53:29 GMT

Hi,

(cat text; uuencode file1 file1)| mailx user

this example will send a text with an attachement.
good luck,
Thierry.

Re: Mail from command line

Pedro Sousa — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:03:00 GMT

Hi!
mailx -s "" address <
good luck.

Re: Mail from command line

federico_3 — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:25:30 GMT

this should help you:

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x41950559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9!0,00.html

federico

Re: Mail from command line

CHRIS_ANORUO — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:26:28 GMT

Try these command:
unencode localfilename attachedfilename |sendmail user@hp.com or
unencode localfilename attachedfilename |mailx user@hp.com

Re: Mail from command line

Jim Moffitt_1 — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:47:40 GMT

This has worked for me:

first create a dummy file:
# cat /tmp/dummy
[include /tmp/jimbackup.010208.5037.log application/msword base64]

Then issue the elm command:
elm -s 'test' jim_Moffitt@notes.teradyne.com < /tmp/dummy
This has worked for me without any problems.

Jim

Re: Mail from command line

Rita C Workman — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:25:21 GMT

There are a few ways you can do this. Chris mentioned uuencode, and here's a thread that rementions that along with my personal favorite the [include statement] along with another way to do this using mpack. Hope it helps you:

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x41950559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9!0,00.html

Regards,
/rcw

Re: Mail from command line

Shannon Petry — Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:23:29 GMT

The problem that you will have trying to re-invent the wheel is that sendmail can handle a mime-encoded attachment ONLY! You can not send raw binary data via email no matter what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This forces many steps!
1. mime-encode your file and put it somewhere. (This is more daunting than it appears as there is no mimencode by nature on HP-UX, and the one on the porting center is partially broken!)

2. build a file for sendmail which contains the required size, mime-type, and of course syntax for the attachment, and anything else you need with it. I.E. Subject, Message Body, etc.... Sendmails syntax, and requirements for empty lines for this is not easy by any means!

There is a patch for ELM on HP-UX which allows attachments with a single file line with the attachment and mime-type.

mail, mailx, and standard elm dont support binary file attachments, only text which is placed as the message body. I.E.
mailx -s 'subject' someone@dom.com < /tmp/mailfile.txt

I use the patched elm to send binary attachments where necessary, and include the "include" statement within scripts to make it on the fly and control file names, etc....

Literally I spent 2 days trying to get sendmail to work with the attachments, get a mime encoder working, and only about 20% of the mails worked. Too much work re-inventing the wheel for me!

Regards,
Shannon

Re: Mail from command line

ICT Infrastructure — Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:46:12 GMT

Thanks for you help everyone.

I have a soloution with mpack.

Just one more question on this , is there any way to send multiple attachments.
My current soloution is to tar the files I want to send, but this could be a problem when sending out to user with a lack of winzip or similar.

Any suggestions ??

Once again, everyone thanks for you help

Re: Mail from command line

Andrew Maslin — Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:24:19 GMT

See this thread - the author shows a way to do multiple attachments (I have not tried it).

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x3da4854994d9d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html