Attching a "zipped" tar file to mail message

[Patrick_85]

Hello, I would like to send an email to an Outlook client with a "zipped" tar file attached to the email. "uuencode" doesn't seem to like the tar format.

Anu ideas?

Thanks

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Elm will work just fine from the command line and it's quite easy.

Within the body of your email add this:

------------------------------------

This is my text. How are you?


[include /tmp/myattach application/octet-stream base64]

This is some more text in the middle.

[include /tmp/myexcel.xls application/ms-excel base64]

This is a closing message in the email.

----------------------------------------



That will attach /tmp/myattach and /tmp/myexcel.xls. You can include multiple attachments using this method.



Then to use it from a script:
elm -s "My Subject" user@mailserver.com < myletter

Where myletter contains the attachment include statement as well as your message text. It is also necessary that you have a .elm directory
under the users home directory becuase unlike the interactive version of elm the command-line version will not create a .elm directory automatically.


You probably only need the first example using the "octet-stream".

[S.K. Chan]

This is what I have tested and worked for me. I'm sending this using elm to my MS Outlook. What you need to do is in your file , say "mydata.tar.Z" add this at the top of the file (as the header on the first line)

[include mydata.tar.Z application/octet-stream base64]

Then simply run ..

$ elm johndoe@outlook.com < mydata.tar.Z

[Geoff Wild]

Or you can install/use mpack:

http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Users/mpack-1.5/

Mpack and munpack are utilities for encoding and decoding
(respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions) format mail messages.

Rgds...Geoff

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Patrick,

You can try using the "elm" program interactively to send a tar file as an attachment. It is very intuitive, easy to use.

Hai

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi


mpack , elm can help you , you can get more of such handy tools at :


http://www.stokely.com/unix.sysadm.resources/email.html



Manoj Srivastava

[Patrick_85]

Thank you.

The include string does not seem to work on my OS. I get an "include not found" message. Is this part of an add on to HP-UX?

[Steven E. Protter]

This utility which is based on something I found on itrc will attach any file to a mail message.


Attached.

SEP

[A. Clay Stephenson]

If you are running 10.20 then you need PHNE_24520 to support MIME enabled elm. There were also some patches to fix elm on 11.0 but 11.11 should be okay "out of the box".

It's REALLY a good idea to identify your OS when posing questions.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

If you are running 10.20 then you need PHNE_24520 to support MIME enabled elm. There were also some patches to fix elm on 11.0 but 11.11 should be okay "out of the box".

It's REALLY a good idea to identify your OS when posing questions.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

If you are running 10.20 then you need PHNE_24520 to support MIME enabled elm. There were also some patches to fix elm on 11.0 but 11.11 should be okay "out of the box".

It's REALLY a good idea to identify your OS when posing questions.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

If you are running 10.20 then you need PHNE_24520 to support MIME enabled elm. There were also some patches to fix elm on 11.0 but 11.11 should be okay "out of the box".

It's REALLY a good idea to identify your OS when posing questions.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

If you are running 10.20 then you need PHNE_24520 to support MIME enabled elm. There were also some patches to fix elm on 11.0 but 11.11 should be okay "out of the box".

It's REALLY a good idea to identify your OS when posing questions.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

It's rather difficult to know if something will work on your OS when you don't bother to identify the OS. Perhaps someone can "use the Force" or call their psychic, Miss Cleo, to identify your OS.


If you are running HP-UX 10.20 then you will need to install PHNE_24520 to MIME enable elm.