using sendmail -v to send a txt file

[Barbara Kramer]

Hi,

I am generating a txt file, fields separeted with ;.

Not to change the format I want to use
sendmail -v.

I know I can use

uuencode orig.txt new.txt|sendmail -v user@domanin.com

yet, I do not want to convert the file in any way, since it is being read into another system, as soon as it arrives. I can not manipulate the receiving file, for instance with uudecode new.txt

does anyone have an answer

thanks in advance

Barbara

[Denver Osborn]

Is there any reason why this wouldn't work for you?

sendmail -v user@domain.com

-denver

[Michael Steele_2]

uuencode is for attachements. You can also send the file in the body of the message as Denver mentioned or with mailx.

cat file | mailx -s "subject" you@yourdomain.com him@hisdomain.com her@herdomain.com

[someone_4]

cat your file | sendmail someone@somewhere.com

[Steven E. Protter]

Try the attached script. It will do the job.'

Self documented.

SEP

[Barbara Kramer]

thanks a mill for helping out.
Yet, I did not want to cat the file. It needs to be send as an attachment. This is why I wanted to use something like uuencode orig.txt new.txt|sendmail -v user@domanin.com

I have not tried the script from sep. Maybe someone just knows a command

Barbara

[Steven E. Protter]

Let me assure you that my script sends real attachments.

Its not the fact we're using the cat command, its what we cat that makes it an attachment.

Give me your email address and I'll send you /etc/issue with it.

It works in production with binary files.

It works in production with ascii files.

It's a solution. Seriously. It could stand some documentation, but it works.

SEP

[Barbara Kramer]

Hello Sed,

I finally had a chance to test your script.
It works well. Since Unix is only a tiny part of my job, I appriciate all the help an knowledge I can.

Thanks again

Barbara