How to attach documents with sendmail?

[Deepu Chakravarty]

I have configured sendmail and I am receiving mails from my unix box to the smtp mail server. Now I want to receive mails with any attachment. How this can be achieved? How do I attach any document with the mail?
Thanks.

[Sameer_Nirmal]

Hi,

Single attachment could be send using
# uuencode /etc/hosts hosts | sendmail abc@xyz.com

Multiple attachment could be send using
#uuencode /etc/hosts hosts;uuencode
/etc/services services)| sendmail abc@xyz.com

You can use mailx or elm as well in above examples.

If you want to send MIME attachement, then
Add the following lines. to /usr/share/lib/mailx.rc file
set charset=X-roman8
set charset=us-ascii

[Deepu Chakravarty]

hi,

I will use mailx. Then?

[Sameer_Nirmal · Accepted solution]

You can use mailx like this
#uuencode /etc/hosts hosts.txt | mailx -s "Host file" abc@xyz.com

[Deepu Chakravarty]

Hi,

uuencode is working. But the attachment is coming in jumbled format. It should come as it is. Any more info?

[David Markus]

Hi Deepu,

as the name already suggest, uuencode encodes the file you want to transmit. The get the file to its original state, you should decode it first with 'uudecode [filename]'. This way it should be readable again.

greetz,

David

[Geoff Wild]

Try using mpack to send the file instead:

http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Users/mpack-1.6/

Run like so:

/usr/local/bin/mpack -s "svr004 cfg2html" /opt/cfg2html/svr004.html gwild@mydomian.ca


Rgds...Geoff

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Deepu,

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

uses sendmail, is production tested and easily modified.

SEP

[Sandman!]

Hi Deepu,

Need to use "-m" switch with mailx for MIME messages. For ex. to send the /tmp/myfile as an attachment use:

# uuencode /tmp/myfile /tmp/myfile | mailx -m -s "Subject"

cheers!