Sending e-mail with zip file attachment via mailx to Outlook

[Dave La Mar]

Linda -
Just another opinion. We often use gzip since it's compression ratio is better than compress.

As with many windows users, we send files to, we were told the zipped file was corrupt.
Subsequent to that we found that WINRAR worked fine for unix zipped files.

Your mailx portion looks fine.

Best of luck.

Regards,

dl

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

The zipped file is not in pkzip (implemented in windows) format, but in gzip format.

There's two close choices:

-Install a better archive handler on Windows (winrar, winace, winzip, to my knowledge all have to be licensed for at least commercial use)

- Compile pkzip on HP-UX (works, but the manhours involved will equal the license cost; still a useful idea.)

[Keerat Singh]

Linda,

It is very useful info you have posted. I wanted to the same thing but my client OS is Linux. Any ideas?

I appreciate you help or any forum members help.

Regards,

Keerat

[Steven Schweda]

> I wanted to the same thing but [...]

This would work better in a new thread, but
that new thread can refer to this old one.

> my client OS is Linux.

So you want to send e-mail with an attachment
from an HP-UX system to a Linux system? The
methods shown here should work, but the best
answer may depend on the e-mail client
program at the destination.


By the way, ...

> - Compile pkzip on HP-UX (works, but the
> manhours involved will equal the license
> cost; still a useful idea.)

Info-ZIP's (free) Zip and UnZip programs work
just fine on HP-UX, if you're looking for a
more Windows-compatible file compress/archive
method.

http://www.info-zip.org/

[Keerat Singh]

Thanks for quick reply; I really appreciate it. I am trying to send zipped file from Linux to MS Outlook.

I have tried everything and no luck :-(

???

Keerat

[Steven Schweda]

> I have tried everything and no luck :-(

Obviously not true. For example, you
haven't tried asking about Linux in a Linux
forum.

And when you start a new thread in the right
place, you might say _which_ Linux (and which
version). Then you might give an example of
what you have tried, with an explanation of
what went wrong when you tried it. It's
often difficult to diagnose "no luck" without
more information than "no luck".