MIME and UUENCODE Mail Attachments

[Guy McMickle]

On HP-UX 10, using patch PHNE_15835, attachments in MIME format now work and UUENCODE do not.

With the patch, uuencoded attachments are received with the literal text 'begin 0 .... \ end' as part of the message body. Uninstalling the patch "fixes" the UUENCODE error. Is this a configuration problem on the UNIX platform? Is there a configuration setting needed on the mail server (Exchange Server/Outlook) to support both modes?

On the HP, MIME is interpreted using 'munpack/mpack' and UUENCODE using 'uudecode/uuencode'. Neither the UNIX or Exchange Server adminstrators knows how to fix the problem.

[Rita C Workman]

Let me know if you get an answer on this. I don't use uuencode here. I installed PHNE_15835 for MIME and our staff prefers to set up Include statements for report emailing.
HOWEVER, I just patched up with 9/00 -- and now -- the Include is not working. ONLY change, upgraded to 9/00 patches.
Seems our problems are mirror reflections maybe of the same or similar issue...
Thanks,
Rita

[Rita C Workman]

Let me know if you get an answer on this. I don't use uuencode here. I installed PHNE_15835 for MIME and our staff prefers to set up Include statements for report emailing.
HOWEVER, I just patched up with 9/00 -- and now -- the Include is not working. ONLY change, upgraded to 9/00 patches.
Seems our problems are mirror reflections maybe of the same or similar issue...
Thanks,
Rita
rworkman@wvbep.org

[Guy McMickle]

I still have not determined why HP-UX 10 has "lost" its ability to handle UUENCODE after applying patch PHNE_15835. HP Technical Document W3378501 (June 19,1997) references adding 'set charset=us-ascii' to /usr/share/lib/mailx.rc to reset MIME to UUENCODE. Is this the solution? From a shell script, where/how is this set locally defined within mailx?

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Update the /usr/share/lib/mailx.rc as stated. Because at startup time, mailx reads command from this system-wide file to initialise certain parameters..

[Guy McMickle]

Can the 'set' be done in-line within the shell script mailx command's input stream? I would like the default to remain MIME encoding, so as to not impact all system accounts / users.

[Rita C Workman]

I got my problem with loss of MIME with PHNE_15835 resolved. In case you need the info here's the url:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xe708a24d9abcd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html