Unable to received email attachments

[C_V]

Hi Guys,

Please advise regarding this issue, i am able to sent email and is being received but the attachment is missing.

I use this code.

uuencode file.tar file.tar | mailx -s "file.tar"

[Mel Burslan]

try this :

uuencode file.tar file.tar | mailx -m -s "file.tar"

-m means "Do not add MIME header lines". Newer versions of Micro$oft exchange, for some reason, do not like these headers, as I came to realize.

Hope this helps

[C_V]

Hi thanks for the reply but still no attachment is received. test email content is just


begin 644 file.tar
4=&AI`
end

[Michael Steele_2]

The only thing I see is the bin file retaining a tar format extension, else, this works for me.

uuencode file.tar file.bin| mailx -s "file.tar"

-or just--

uuencode file.tar file | mailx -s "file.tar"

Unless its that the tar format that can't be converted. Try a plan ascii file.

[Steven Schweda]

A Forum search for keywords like, say,
e-mail attachment
should find many old threads on this topic.

> [...] is being received but the attachment
> is missing.

It "is being received" where? Read using
what? Note that this (very old) "uuencode"
scheme does not yield a MIME-compliant
message, and some modern e-mail client
programs may not know what to do with it.
MIME-compliant alternatives exist.

[Wilfred Chau_1]

try
(uuencode file.tar file.tar.txt; echo "test") | mailx -m -s "file.tar"

[Bob_Vance]

I have attached a little script that I wrote a while back that can be used, tweaked, or perused for ideas.

The script runs on HPUX and Linux.

It creates a multipart mime email, and can support a body, as well as an attachemnt.
The attachment can be any file, binary or text.


## mail_mime_attachment -h

usage: mail_mime_attachment \
[-s subject] \
[-b ] # body of e-mail file \
# if no -b, then uses standard input
-A # the file to be attached \
[-c CC: address] \
[-bc BCC: address] \
-t addressee name \
-a e-mail address


It uses sendmail directly.

It also uses 'base64', which is not part of HPUX, but which can be downloaded for free and 'make'ed, if you have a C compiler.


bv

[Bob_Vance]

Here's an HPUX binary of base64 that runs on PArisc and Itanium 11.23 and 11.31. Probably runs on 11.11, as well.


bv

[EldoSkaria]

the solution was clear and precise.

Thanks a lot.