uuencode with message body

[MattJ123]

I'm attempting to send a file as an attatchment with mailx. For example:
uuencode filename.txt attachmentname.txt | mailx -s "filename" email@address

This leaves little room for a message body. I've attempted with a heredoc, which doesn't seem to work very well, for example:

mailx -s "filename" email@address <Message body
This is some text
`uuencode filename.txt attachment.txt`
EOF

Does another way exist where I can have a message body with a uuencoded attachment?

[Stuart Urquhart]

Try adding -m to mailx :-
uuencode filename.txt attachmentname.txt | mailx -m -s "filename" email@address

You might also need to ux2dos the file depending what you're reading it with at the other end :-

cat filename | ux2dos | uuencode attachmentname.txt | mailx -m -s "filename" email@address

[Fred Ruffet · Accepted solution]

mailx -m -s "passwd file" email@adress
Place some text here
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[Geoff Wild]

Try mpack:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Users/mpack-1.5/

Rgds....Geoff

[Steven E. Protter]

The script I'm attaching will do the job. It has more features than you want, but it has the advantage of being production and working.

Note that uuencode problems can sometimes happen due to smtp relay servers not being up to date on patching.

SEP

[MattJ123]

Well, since this may be called from shell or perl I have the following working examples below.. Thanks for the help everybody!
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#!/usr/bin/sh
mailx -s "test" email@address.com <SHELL TEST
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