elm attachments

[Craig Warnholtz]

On hp-ux 10.20 I send attachments using the following command:
uuencode file.txt file.txt|elm user@abc.com

This no longer works under hp-ux 11.0. The encoded attachment is placed into the body of the message!
Why does this no longer work? Do I need a patch for elm?

Thanks
Craig

[S.K. Chan]

You can work around that by adding the mime header ..
$ vi file.txt
==> add this line to at the top of the file ..
[include file.txt text/plain base64]

Then try this ..
$ elm user@abc.com < file.txt

It works for me when I send it to my yahoo account. I'm not sure if there's such patch for 11.x.

[Craig Warnholtz]

When I add this..
[include file.txt text/plain base64]

and try this ..
$ elm user@abc.com < file.txt

file.txt gets sent as an attachment and is included in the message body.

Why does the original method work for 10.20 but not for 11.0?

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Attached is a handy dandy script that should work. You may need or want to do a few mods but here its production.

elm patches are always good, but I don't like your current methodology.

SEP

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

File attachment using uuencode works well with 11.00.

instead of elm try using sendmail

uuencode filetobattached filename | sendmail email-id.

-USA..

[Craig Warnholtz]

Thanks Steven, I switched to sendmail using some of the code from your script.

Much appreciated.
Craig