Attaching file to email

[John Curtis]

I'd like to send a file with mail or mailx as an attachment rather than as part of the body of the email. I can't seem to find instructions on how to do this. Can anyone help?

Regards

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Have a look at this link.

-Michael

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x7a92ee3e323bd5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.htm

[Craig Rants]

Here is a little script I use. You will probably get a ton of responses on this one, this thread comes through about once a week.

GL,
C

#!/bin/sh
MAILFILE=/tmp/mailtemp
HEADER=/tmp/header

clear
echo "Enter the email address: \c"
read TO
echo "Enter the Cc email address: \c"
read CC
echo "Enter the Bcc email address: \c"
read BCC
echo "Enter the Subject: \c"
read SUBJECT
echo "Enter the Body: \c"
read BODY
echo "Enter the filename of the attachment: \c"
read DATAFILE

echo To: $TO >> $HEADER
echo Cc: $CC >> $HEADER
echo Bcc: $BCC >> $HEADER
echo Subject: $SUBJECT >> $HEADER
echo "" >> $HEADER
echo "" >> $HEADER
echo $BODY >> $HEADER
echo "" >> $HEADER

cat $HEADER > $MAILFILE
uuencode $DATAFILE $DATAFILE.doc >> $MAILFILE
cat $MAILFILE | /usr/lib/sendmail -t
rm $MAILFILE
rm $HEADER

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

uuencode with mailx's -m option will do the needful.

uuencode file file |mailx -m -s "subject' mailid

-Sri

[Dave La Mar]

Here is one I use extensively in variations -
ux2dos /path/to/file_to_send | uuencode newfile.txt | mailx -m -s "Subject" user@xxx.com

The ux2dos insures the file gets the correct ascii character translations.
Best of Luck
dl

[Deshpande Prashant]

Hi
Try this-
#/usr/bin/uuencode attachment attachment |mailx -m -s "Heading for email'

Thanks.
Prashant.