Sending .gz attachments to outlook

[Cameron_13]

I am trying to attach a file /tmp/test.$$.gz to an e-mail that is sent to a clients outlook mailbox when a job is done. Right now I am just getting garbage sent. I also get this when I run my script that sends the e-mail.
Text has 8BIT data and charset=US-ASCII, using charset=UNKNOWN-8BIT instead.

Any ideas?

[Nicolas Dumeige]

Hello,

We use the attached script.

Cheers

Nicolas

[Mark Grant · Accepted solution]

You could always "uuencode" it

[Cameron_13]

Mark,

I found when I tried that there was nothing on the ohter end to decode it.

[Jeff_Traigle]

Outlook expects MIME messages, I'm sure. Instead of piping uuencoded files into mail or mailx (which would be the traditional method), try elm, which supports MIME format for non-text mail, in file mode. Something like

elm -s Subject user@domain < file

might interact with Outlook a little better.

[Cameron_13]

Jeff,

When I use that method I recive the following in my mail box

Text has 8BIT data and charset=US-ASCII, using charset=UNKNOWN-8BIT instead.
Sending mail...
Mail sent!


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[Cameron_13]

Nicolas,

I looked through your script and tried to run it using the this command

94508.sh -tccunning@epcor.ca -sattachtest -b/tmp/archcomp.238.gz

the process seems to hang. Am I using this wrong?

[Geoff Wild]

Best thing to use - mpack:

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.

Rgds...Geoff

[Steven E. Protter]

I'm in HP education center today or i'd just attach a script. My script is called mailfile or mailfile2. Its attached todozens of my forum posts.

It does exactly what you want and deals with these issues nicely.

Do check your firewall that its fully patched, especially if symanntec had anything to do with it.

SEP

[Nicolas Dumeige]

Cameron

append this to the end of command :
< /dev/null

Regards

Nicolas

[Nicolas Dumeige]

1) There're example at the begining of the shell :

mail_files Dave.Wotton -b file9.gif t*.htm < /dev/null

2) I realize that I did't say that I did'nt write the script. Don't remeber where I got it, could be on ITRC ;-D

Nicolas

[Cameron_13]

I now have the .gx attachment being sent with my e-mail. Thanks guys. But one more question. When i open the attached file all the spaces have been removed. Is there anyway I can stop this?

[Rita C Workman]

It might be something similar to what happens to binary files when they are mailed as attachments....
...when your sending mail (binary) over the internet via smtp everything has to be set to 7bit. So it gets converted from the 8bit (you) to 7bit over the internet and then it needs to be converted back to 8bit.

I've never had the need to send gz files to an Outlook mailbox. Maybe it just needs some kind of MIME decoder to set things back in original order, like binary files do.

Just a thought....for what it's worth,
Rita

[Robert A. Pierce]

This is how I do it.

To send all *.gz files in a directory to my Windows box:

$ for FILE in *.gz ; do
> uuencode $FILE $FILE done
> done | elm -s"Testing" my_address
mail sent!

That works for me in Outlook 97 and Outlook 2002, using X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 212.5]


Hope this helps

Rob

[Robert A. Pierce]

Mark Grant wrote:

> You could always "uuencode" it

Cameron replied:

>I found when I tried that there was nothing
>on the ohter end to decode it.

WinZip will uudecode files with a .uu extension.

If you do this:

uuencode myfile myfile.uu | elm -s"UU file" myaddress

then you should be able to open the file with WinZip on a windows box.

Rob