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miaoxucheng
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help,mailx question ????

hi,expert !
I use "mailx" to send mails to my mail server on exchange server .but I found sometimes my mail's text and attachement are trucated ,but not always .
who can tell me why ? and how to correct this situation .
thanks a lot !

 

 

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harry d brown jr
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Re: help,mailx question ????

How are you "uuencode"'ing your attachments? LIKE THIS:


for i in `echo filename1 filename2 filename3 ...`
do
uuencode $i $i.txt
done|mailx -m -s "test" username@whereever.com



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Michael Tully
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Re: help,mailx question ????

Hi,

What OS version, what patch revision do you have?. If it is only sometimes I would looking at the method and what pattern fails, if there is one. Do you have the correct entry in the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file?

e.g.
DSmailserver

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Bill Hassell
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Re: help,mailx question ????

Just a thought, but can you verify the contents with a simpler mailer like elm, or look at the actual ASCII text with vi? Exchange and Outlook (and PC helper programs)tend to hide information to avoid confusing you. You can do this by appending a local address on the machine sending the mailx message, something like this:

mailx -sSomeMessage user@exchange.addr.com,local_user_ID < somefile

Two copies of the message will be sent so you can verify the actual contents in /var/mail/local_user_ID or read it with elm.


Bill Hassell, sysadmin