How to send and attachment through mail command

[Dineshkumar]

Hi All,

I would like send a tar file as an attachment through an mail command from an hpux system

I have tried below syntax for file

mail "system" -f sample - this works fine if its a file

Please suggest me how can i send an attachment using a mail command

Regards
Dinesh

[Patrick Wallek]

I use the following to e-mail files as attachments:

(echo "Subject: tar file" ; uuencode /path/to/file.tar /path/to/file.tar) | /usr/sbin/sendmail someone@somewhere.com

Just substitute your information where applicable.

[spex]

Hi Dinesh,

# uuencode f1.tar f1.tar | mailx -m -s "f1.tar Attached" your@email.addr

PCS

[Dineshkumar]

Hi

Sorry i have tried both syntax..

Its not working for me..

Regards
Dinesh

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

A working script you can emulate.

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

The code is readable and will help.

SEP

[spex]

Dinesh,

Your mail relay may be blocking messages with large attachments. Do you receive anything (i.e. a message with attachment stripped) on the other end? Check mail.log on your HP-UX system and relevant logs on your mail relay.

Will a message with a smaller attachment make it to its destination? How about with a different type of file attached? What if you send the attachment to a local user (bypassing the relay agent)? Or is it an issue with the email application or anti-virus software on the client?

PCS

[John Flanagan]

Try
uuencode file.tar file.tar | mail ........

[enrico.nic]

I use a free utility, mpack, available from
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Users/mpack-1.6/
that encodes the attachment using MIME.

The usage is fairly simple through command line, like

mpack -s "Subject" file address

Cheers

Enrico

[Roland Piette]

Hi,

I found somewhere this utility ....
see attachment.

Roland

[Rita C Workman]

I just create an include file that looks like this:

[include /path/file.ext text/plain base64]

Then I use command line:

elm -s "my file" anybody@company.com < /path/include.file

It doesn't cost a thing, it's easy....

Just a thought,
Rita

[Dave La Mar]

Dinesh -
I have posted this in house doc for many uses of mailx. We use mailx nearly exclusively in our shop. Hope you find one that matches your need.

Regards,

dl