Mailx on HP-UX

[rick sussman]

We are having a problem with mailx working on HP-UX when the mail message has an attachment. The example below is the code that works on TRU64. The message is successfully sent but the attachment content is all jumbled. The issue appears to be related to the uuencode command.
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title="HTML Mail from PDprod01 For $(date +%b%d%Y)"

#uuencode $p2 $work_file | mailx -s "$title" john.doe@.com

uuencode $p2 $work_file | sendmail -s "$title" $UNIX_ONCALL_5

[Rita C Workman]

Let me go out on limb on this subject again....
mailx is a message and broadcasting 'utility'.
Can you send mail with this tool? - Yes, ..but..

And it is the ..but.. you are seeing. Sendmail , on the other hand is intended for internet mail. Elm uses Sendmail, so it is far more reliable (IMHO), for external mail.

My personal preference, because of it's diversity in sending attachments of ALL kinds is to utilize the [ include ]. There are other methods that can be used as well (third party vendors, etc. But I still like the flexibility of [ include ].

You can do a search for threads on this subject: MIME attachment

Here's one to get you started:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=198775

Hope this helps,
Rita

[Dave La Mar]

Rick -
I believe Rita hit it on the head with the -m option, In any regard, attached are multiple examples of using mailx.

Best regards,

dl

[Carlo Corthouts]

Hi,

The attachment given previously has some very interesting things.

I always like using the one with ux2dos.