how to mail file as an attachment ?

[miaoxucheng]

hi , expert !
I set an environment to send a email from HP UNIX system to WINDOWS MS exchenge server using the command 'mailx' ,but I can not send a file as an attachment ,how can I do this ?
thanks a lot .


pig

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[Deepak Extross · Accepted solution]

Hi,

See this thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x80e135067c18d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

Use uuencode and mime option.

# uuencode file file|mailx -m -s "mail with attachment" abc@xyz.com

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Try this:

uuencode [filename] [name you want for attachment] | mailx -m -s "my subject" fred@domain.com

HTH
-Michael