topic Re: sending mail to outlook but attachment is part of the mail body in Operating System - HP-UX

sending mail to outlook but attachment is part of the mail body

Ian Lochray — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:53:52 GMT

I want to send a plain text file from HP-UX to MS Outlook as an attachment. I have tried all the methods I can find in all the different threads ( uuencode, include, < filename ) with elm, mailx and sendmail. The file contents do get to Outlook but my problem is that they are embedded in the mail body and are not a seperate attachment. If I try to email a pdf file it does appear as an attachment but plain text files do not.

Re: sending mail to outlook but attachment is part of the mail body

Radu Swider_1 — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:15:07 GMT

i know this, but you can send attachments following this `procedure`:

gzip -c file_to_compress | uuencode compressed_file >> ./message_to_send

echo "The body of the message" >> ./message_to_send

mailx -s "Subject of the message" xx@yy.zz < message_to_send

at the end, if you want to clean the message_to_send type cat /de/null > ./message_to_send

Re: sending mail to outlook but attachment is part of the mail body

Ian Lochray — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:52:42 GMT

I tried this without success.
I have a file "ilfile" whch contains 3 lines. I do ...
gzip -c ilfile | uuencode ilfile.Z >> ilfile.send
echo "This is the body" >> ilfile.send
mailx -s "This is the subject" ian@ssi-world.com < ilfile.send
In MS outlook, I get a message (no attachment) with the text
begin 666 ilfile.Z
G'XL("-)O73L``VEL9FEL90!+3$SD2DI*XDI.3N8"`#3Z'[X,````
`
end
This is the message body

Re: sending mail to outlook but attachment is part of the mail body

Rita C Workman — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:53:41 GMT

Re: sending mail to outlook but attachment is part of the mail body

Radu Swider_1 — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:11:45 GMT

my script witch send mails with attachments works very well with outlook express...but the output of the gzip have .gz extension....nothing with .Z !!!
I will send you again my script...
Maybe is something about the path (try absolute path)

gzip -c a.txt | uuencode a.gz >> ./to_send
echo "Body" >> ./to_send
mailx -s "Subject" aa@bb.cc < ./to_send

good luck

Re: sending mail to outlook but attachment is part of the mail body

Ian Lochray — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:51:48 GMT

Thanks for your help. It now works beautifully.