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[j773303]

How to use mailx to attached file forward to users?

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Try this:

$ for e in `echo file1 file2 file3`
> do
> uuencode $e $e.txt
> done | mailx -m -s "mymail" username@domain.com

Change the ".txt" to the proper format of the file e.g. .xls for excel

[j773303]

Do you have any other sample if I don't want to uuencode command? How to modify this script? I just want to send ascii file.

[Michael Tully]

Unfortunately 'uuencode' is highly recommended and in most cases quite necessary. You can use it with or without files that have extension names (suffixes)
Suggest you have a look at some postings that have more ideas. There are quite a number.

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[Steven E. Protter]

I'm attaching a sendmail script that does attachments pretty well.

Attaching it.

It can be worked quite nicely into Michael's loop and doesn't use uuencode

SEP

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi SEP,

if it doesnt use uuencode, whats this?
uuencode $attfile $flename >> $fmesg

greetings,

Michael

[Steven E. Protter]

Darn,

I forgot about that line.

Thanks for keeping me honest.

SEP

[Geoff Wild]

Another cool utility is mpack

You can get it from the HP-UX Porting Centre:

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."

mpack -s subject filetoattach youremail@yourdomain.com

Rgds...Geoff

[Tim Sanko]

Not that I am less than a critic, but isn't mpack on hpux also going to use uuencode...

Tim

[Geoff Wild]

Tim, you are right - in that case,

mailx -s "your subject" yourid@yourdomain.com < yourfile

That will NOT attach the file - but it doesn't uuencode...

Not too sure why uuencode is being frowned upon....

Rgds...Geoff