Sending a File as an Attachement using Sendmail

[Kehad Snydewel]

Hi

I wish to send a file as an attachement using Sendmail, but it refuses to send it as an attachement.
I've tried the following with mailx

uuencode file file | mailx -s " " me@domain.com

Please help...

[whiteknight · Accepted solution]

hi,
here is some tips

Sendmail

Example1:
(uuencode /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.txt;uuencode /etc/services /etc/services.txt)
| sendmail abc@hp.com

Note:
The ( ) around the uuencode is required

Example2:
cat /etc/hosts /etc/services > newfile ; cat newfile | sendmail abc@hp.com

WK
please assign points

[Dennis Handly]

>WK: cat /etc/hosts /etc/services > newfile ; cat newfile | sendmail

Any reason you want to create newfile, instead of just piping the first cat of two files to sendmail?

[Bill Hassell]

Actually, you can use mailx -- just add the -m option. And if the destination is a PC, use ux2dos to properly format the file:

ux2dos myfile | uuencode someTitle.txt | mailx -m -s "my subject" you@somewhere.com

ux2dos will translate from Unix to DOS/PC style line terminators and the uuencode filename becomes the name for the attachment (which can be anything including the original filename).

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

This script is pretty nifty.

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

It actually uses sendmail though this is not a requirement. It's production quality code, used by myself and many others. If there are still default email addresses in there, please change them.

SEP

[Geoff Wild]

And yet another way:

Try using mpack to send the file instead:

http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Users/mpack-1.6/

Run like so:

/usr/local/bin/mpack -s "svr004 cfg2html" /opt/cfg2html/svr004.html gwild@mydomian.ca


Rgds...Geoff

[Kehad Snydewel]

Thanks Guys for your input.

Now, how do I add this command in a script file?
(uuencode file file) | sendmail me@domain.com

The reason I ask is I want to create a cronjob that executes the script file to send me the e-mail with the attached file.

I added the command as it is a a script,but it does not work.

Help

[Anshumali]

1. Set your environment in script. User and cron env are different.
2. Give full paths to command and your files.

[Kehad Snydewel]

I've tried /usr/bin/sh at the top of the script but still no luck, any further ideas?

[Franky_1]

Hi,

just try the following

uuencode |sendmail
For example
uuencode test test.rpt|sendmail sam (as defined in /etc/mail/aliases) or the full address is also possible of course

Regards

Franky

[Franky_1]

Just enter the previously mentioned command line (uuencode ...) in a scriptfile and start this script via cronjob - that's it

Regards

Franky

[Sandman!]

One problem with your cmd line is the absence of the "-m" switch which forces mailx to distinguish between attachments and message body text. See if the cmd below works:

# uuencode file file | mailx -m -s " " me@domain.com

~cheers

[Dave La Mar]

Sir -
I realize you are wanting to use sendmail, but as others posted, there are a myriad of ways to handle this with mailx.
I am attaching an inhouse doc we use quite frequently in our shop with many examples.

Regards,

-dl

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom again.

mailx uses sendmail as a transport.

It makes no difference whether your code uses mailx or sendmail directly as does my script.

Take another look at my earlier post. It has the exact lines of code you want to use to do the job with sendmail.

SEP

[Kehad Snydewel]

So how do I add this to a scritp file.
I want to execute two of these commands to attach to different files, but after I execute the script it does nothing

Help

[Bill Hassell]

Here is a script as an example. It uses mailx and a 'here' document with text in the body of the message. This example attaches 3 files:

#!/usr/bin/sh
mailx -m -s "This is the subject" me@somplace.com << EOF
$(ux2dos /etc/profile | uuencode MyProfile.txt)
$(ux2dos /etc/hosts| uuencode MyHosts.txt)
$(ux2dos /etc/inittab| uuencode MyInittab.txt)
So there are 3 files here.
The uuencode filename is not local to your system, it is used to provide a title for
the attachment.

You can put lots of comments here or even
use a text file like this:
$(cat /etc/nsswitch.files)

This is the end...
EOF

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Now notice that *full pathnames* are used, not something in your local directory. When cron runs, there is no login, no profile, just a simple environment.