uuencode for external email....with pdf attachment

[Deepu Chakravarty]

1.we are using 'uuencode' for sending email with attachment. Using 'uuencode' email with pdf attachment in internal network is okay. But when we send email outside our domain (like yahoo.com) the attachment gets jumbled. The attachment is not going as it is.
2. We need to send multiple (cc)of the same emails.

Help is required of the above two.

Thanks in advance.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Deepu,

You can use the script I attach or pull code out of it.

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

SEP

[Deepu Chakravarty]

Hi SEP,

Thanks for the script. But I can't use this script because I have to use single line command with 'host'.

My requirement is to send mail with pdf attachment from my unix box. I am using 'uuencode' with mailx for the purpose.

Problem is that the mail is going to the desired email address but pdf attachment is not going.

[Raj D.]

Deepu ,

You can try this :

1. # uuencode file.pdf file.pdf | mailx -s "PDF file attached" yourname@domain.com


cheers,
Raj.

[Deepu Chakravarty]

Hi,
The external mail is not getting output as an attachement. The pdf attachment is getting attached in the body of the mail as follows:

Subject: AIS Advanced Shipment Notice

begin 644 o5564027.pdf
M)5!$1BTQ+C$*,2`P(&]B:@H\/`HO0W)E871OM"B]#M075T:&]R("A/M(&1R:79EM;V)J"CP\"B]4>7!E("]086=E

[jon2]

If the mail goes internally okay but externally it is not is the corruption happening at the point of attachment or when it passes through a mail gateway?

Try compress or gzip prior to attachment.
(maybe this can be on the fly with
cat x.pdf |compress |uuencode - /tmp/x.pdf.Z |mailx -s "file" dest1@host2 dest2@host3

I think just adding a second dest will send a second copy for you.

[Deepu Chakravarty]

cat o5597927.pdf |compress |uuencode - o5597927.pdf.Z |mailx -s "Test new" abc@yahoo.com

Giving following error:
-: No such file or directory
Null message body; hope that's ok

[harry d brown jr]

You need to use the "DASH m" option to be able to correctly include mime encoded data:

mailx -m -s "Test new" abc@yahoo.com

live free or die
harry d brown jr

[Deepu Chakravarty]

Dash -m is okay. But filename should also be givien. Pls verify.

[Sandman! · Accepted solution]

Hi Deepu,

To send attachments to webmail clients like Yahoo do the following steps:

1. Create an empty file with a blank line at the top as follows:
# echo > your_mail_file

2. Verify that the size of the file is 1 byte:
# ll your_mail_file

3. uuencode the PDF file appending its output to your_mail_file:
# uuencode o5564027.pdf o5564027.pdf >> your_mail_file

4. E-mail the file to your Yahoo account using mailx as follows:
# cat your_mail_file | mailx -m -s "subject_goes_here" abc@yahoo.com

hope it helps!

[harry d brown jr]

uuencode /opt/ignite/share/doc/iuxguide.pdf iuxguide.pdf | mailx -m -s "test pdf" name@domain

live free or die
harry d brown jr

[Dave La Mar]

I'm going to side with Harry's answer.

Attached is a few wxamples that are used in our shop.

Regards,

dl

[Deepu Chakravarty]

Sandy,
Has done very good job(10/10). His clear steps really resolved my problem. This should be archived for future reference.

Thanks.

[Deepu Chakravarty]

Sandman's suggestions resolved my query.
Thanks. His suggestions should be archived for future reference.