mailx - send an email with a file attachment

[Claus Schlotz]

Hello,
i am using HP-UX 11.23 PARISC on an rp4440.
To send emails to our application users we are using the sendmail service. We do not had any problems in the past with sendind emails like this: cat filename < mailx -s "subject" username

Now we want so send the filename not within the email but as an attachment. Can someone help me?
Sendmail-Version is Sendmail 8.11.1/8.11.1
Thank You

[Pete Randall]

uuencode

From the man page:
uuencode foo foo | mailx -s 'new program' friend
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Pete

[Geoff Wild]

Also have a look at this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=992688

Rgds...Geoff

[Gilbert Standen_1]

I have an excellent script that was written by Dave Wotton. I will try to attach it to this post for your use. If it doesn't attach, you can also download it from the http://www.consultingcommandos.com website. This script, written by Dave Wotton, allows you to add attachments (not append to body of email) to your unix emails. For example, if you attach a comma delimited file using this script to your unix command line email, your end user recipients will be able to just click on the attachment and have the .csv comma-delimited file open up as an excel spreadsheet.

[Geoff Wild]

Gilbert - tried that script but get:

# mail_files
/usr/local/bin/mail_files[138]: shift: The specified number is not valid for this command.

Line 138 is the last line of this:

case "$1" in
-* ) : ;; # ignore it, let getopts handle flags
* ) TO=$1 ; shift ;;

Rgds...Geoff

[Dave La Mar]

Claus -
Attached is an inhouse doc we use with multiple uses of mailx including tha attachment.

Feel free to use whatever is usefull.

Regards,

-dl

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Take a look at this script, it has code you can lift.

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

SEP

[Michael Skora]

This works for us where the PDF is the attachment and the E-mail body text is whatever ASCII you put in filename.txt:

# (cat /home/filename.txt; uuencode /home/attach.pdf attach.pdf) | mailx -s 'SubjectLine'
-r replyable.email@yourcompany.com
recepient.email@theircompany.com

Hope it works for you.
Mike