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

Mail attachment from command line

Raja_2 — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:59:33 GMT

Hello,

I hope,I find answer for my problem. ;)

I need sent text file via mail to Exchange server. I've tried something like this :

mailx -s 'subject' name@domain < file,
elm -s 'subject' name@domain < file ([include ******])

but not works ....

I can sent attachment via elm menu but I need it from command line ...

Radim

Re: Mail attachment from command line

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:30:08 GMT

Hi Radim:

Have a look here:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x41950559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Mail attachment from command line

Raja_2 — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 11:19:07 GMT

Hi James,

I had tried it before I wrote this email. :(
It doesn't work. I read about patch, which solve problem with elm but it's for 10.20 and I'm using 11.00. I'm not sure if the problem is in the 11.00.

Problem :
I have log file from sqlplus in good format, when I recived it via mail so the format is bad. I have idea sent this file like attachment and it's all what I need ....

Thx in advance

Radim

Re: Mail attachment from command line

Stefan Farrelly — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 11:31:44 GMT

The link James pointed to you is pretty good, have you tried all the replies from it ?

Sending text files to exchange as attachments is easy, use uuencode;

uuencode | mailx ......

Works fine on our site. If mailx no good try using sendmail.

Re: Mail attachment from command line

Raja_2 — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:10:09 GMT

Wow,

now I'm cleverer ...
It works only with sendmail - enough for me.
One question - I hope last ... :)
Which parameters I have to use when I want to specify subject, because -s isn't right.

Re: Mail attachment from command line

Robin Wakefield — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:16:45 GMT

Hi Radim,

With sendmail, you specify the subject in the message body as follows:

Subject: This is the subject

Rest of message..
.....
.....
.....

In other words, begin the 1st line with "Subject: ", followed by an empty line (no spaces, tabs, etc.), followed by the rest of the message.

Rgds, Robin.

Re: Mail attachment from command line

Raja_2 — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:29:56 GMT

Hi Robert,

you're right.

But I'd like have more ...
Mail with txt file and subject. I'm afraid that this combination isn't possible ..

Do you agree with me ?

Re: Mail attachment from command line

Rita C Workman — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:37:17 GMT

Ah, mailing attachments. One of my favorite things..

Mailing a text file requires alittle 'tweeking', from the command line. Take a look at this thread for some info on this:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x7d6087dc4d7dd5118ff00090279cd0f9,00.html

Regards,
Rita

Re: Mail attachment from command line

Robin Wakefield — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:43:12 GMT

Hi Radim,

This worked for me:

==================================
(echo Subject: This is a test

echo hello ;uuencode /tmp/s.pl /tmp/s.pl) | sendmail robin.wakefield@ubsw.com
==================================

Let me know how you get on.

Rgds, Robin.

Re: Mail attachment from command line

Deshpande Prashant — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:56:00 GMT

HI
This is how I use on my machines.
#/usr/bin/uuencode report.txt report.txt |mailx -m -s "Performance Report for host "

Thanks.
Prashant.

Re: Mail attachment from command line

Raja_2 — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 13:01:37 GMT

Hi Robert,

it's very handy trick with parenthesis... :)
I didn't know it.

Thanks

Radim

Re: Mail attachment from command line

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 13:08:41 GMT

Actually, your elm method would have also worked just fine from the command BUT there must be a .elm directory in the sender's home directory.

The include syntax within your mail textfile should be something very close to this:
[include myfilename application/octet-stream base64]

Where myfilename is your attachment.

Clay