In Linux, how to send a file as an attachment to our mail box

[ezhilarasan_1]

Hi,

In Linux, how to send a file as an attachment to our mail box.

In Unix, the following command works fine

unix2dos m | uuencode m.txt | mailx -s "Testing attachment mail" radhakrishnan.ezhilarasan@ubs.com

But in Linux, it is comming as empty file.
That means coversion is wrong.

Please help how to do this in Linux.


Regards
Ezhil

[spex]

Ezhil,

First, try the command again with 'mailx -m -s' ('-m'="MIME headers") substituted. If that doesn't work, verify that you have 'unix2dos' (or 'ux2dos') and 'uuencode' installed on your system, and that they are in your $PATH, and that you have permission to execute. Also make sure that you can send a different attachment directly from 'mailx'. Then build up the command slowly, incrementally testing each stage:

# unix2dos m | less

If that works, then:

# unix2dos m | uuencode m.txt | less

Then try sending the attachment to a local account:

# unix2dos m | uuencode m.txt | mailx -m -s "Testing attachment mail" root

Then:

unix2dos m | uuencode m.txt | mailx -m -s "Testing attachment mail" radhakrishnan.ezhilarasan@ubs.com

If this yields the same result, make sure that attachments aren't being corrupted/stripped by your mail gateway or your email client.

Finally, you can give SEP's famous mailfile attachment script a try:

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

Good luck,

PCS

[melvyn burnard]

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[Alexander Chuzhoy]

Below is an example:

echo "here comes a message that will appear in the body"|mutt -a filename_to_attach -s "message that will appear in the subject" email@address.com

Regards.

[Dave La Mar]

Ezhil -
Aside from other's comments, attached is an inhose doc on the use of mailx for HP-UX.
Not sure how Linux will interpret all and have never seen the command unix2dos. Though, as you'll see in the doc, we make extensive use of ux2dos.

Regards,

-dl