Not able to attach any file using mailx

[praveen..]

Hi,
I want to send the output of a script to my email id ,
I am not able to attch that file.

# cat test.log | mailx -s "log file" praveen@company.com

I am getting the output on my email id as a message not an attachment.

while i want to get test.log file as an attachment.

I tried with uuencode.

# uuencode test.log | mailx -s "attached log file" praveen2company.com

this is a continous process and i need to kill it using

(Interrupt -- one more to kill letter)
Null message body; hope that's ok
root@grouse:[/opt/cpu_mem/cpumem_logs]
#


Please suggest

how to attach a file

[Peter Godron]

Praveen,
please try:
uuencode test.log test.log | mailx -s "attached log file" praveen2company.com

See "man uuencode"

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

if you are willing t use another took here is a proven production program:

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

Note that smtp gateway software that is not properly patched will destroy attachments sent even by this fine program.

SEP

[vinod_25]

Hi Praveen,

Pete has the right syntax ... use it

uuencode test.log test.log | mailx -s "attached log file" praveen@company.com

I have just edited the email address part for clarity.

Provide points to PETE for his solution text.

Regards,
Vinod

[praveen..]

Hi,
I tried with
#uuencode test.log test.log | mailx -s "attached log file" praveen@company.com

Now i got the hash # prompt again, it looks that commands has sucessfullu completed.

But I am not getting any mail.
while I am getting mail using....but not an attachment..
# cat test.log | mailx -s "log file" praveen@company.com

Please suggest

[Yang Qin_1]

Hi, check /var/adm/syslog/mail.log and see what was happened with the mail with attachment (uuencode ...).

If you just want to attach a log file for one time and you don't mind to attach it interactively, you can use elm instead of mailx.

You can also attach a file which sendmail command by writing a mail header

Yang

[Dave La Mar]

Try any of the examples on the attached that meet your needs.

Regards,

-dl

[Rajeev Shukla]

I use mpack/munpack to do this.
You can download it from http://hpux.connect.org.uk and it works too good to send files as an attachment.

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi Preveen,
what's happend is that Microsoft chnage the echange server and now to be able to see your file as attachment you can use:
1. add the -m flag to your mailx
2. create a file .mailrc in your $HOME directory:
cat<>$HOME/.mailrc
set mimeheader=no
EOF

The second solution is better because you will avaoid to chnage all your script adding -m flag.

HTH,
Art

[praveen..]

Hi,
I tried with this command:
# ux2dos /path_to/some_file | uuencode some_file.txt | mailx -m -s "MAIL FROM Someone" someone@somewhere.com

This command is working but only for *.txt files, not for any *.csv and *.xls files.

Please suggest.

I have also installed mpack utility,
can anybody please let me know how to use it?
I countnot get more information from man pages of mpack.

please suggest

[Igor Sovin]

Hi praveen!

Try sendmail instead of mailx

uuencode test.log test.log | sendmail praveen@company.com

[Dave La Mar]

Try this, which we use for html files -

uuencode local_file local_file.html" | mailx -s "Subject" someone@somewhere.com


Regards,

-dl

[Dave La Mar]

Sorry, one extra double quote shouldn't have been there.
Should have read -
uuencode local_file local_file.html | mailx -s "Subject" someone@somewhere.com

-dl

[praveen..]

I am able to send an attachment using this command:

# ux2dos /path_to/some_file | uuencode some_file.txt | mailx -m -s "MAIL FROM Someone" someone@somewhere.com


but now I am not able to send the message body,

I am opening a new thread...."Not able to mail message body & attachment together"

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1075053

Thanks for your help