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Old 01-01-2008
CKIRCH CKIRCH is offline
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Mailx : can we have the body to be a binary file ?

Hi
I am totally dummy as far as UNIX is concerned, so please apologize.
I was just given the syntax to send multiple attachments with a body.txt message, it works great and we use it a lot.

Now, my question is : can we have the body to be a Binary file (like a Word Document for example)?

My customers gave me a Word document (with some formattings like colors, bullets, bold, underline, etc), and they would like to see that in the Body Message of the email.

Here is the syntax that we currently use to send body.txt with a CSV attachment. We would like the same syntax but for a body in DOC format (or equivalent... maybe XML ??)

$Unix_Command = cd /(mypath)/; (cat body.txt; uuencode attachment.csv attachment.csv) | mailx -m -s "My Subject" christophe.kirch@orange-ftgroup.com

Please note :
We are on HP-UX, but planning to move to LINUX in 2008.
We are on Lotus Notes but planning to move to Outlook in 2008.
We are launching the UNIX command from Peoplesoft SQR Reports, hence we would ideally need the command to be in one single row. [else i am still open to have it in a shell format, since we can also launch that from SQR]

Thanks in advance
Rgds
Chris

Last edited by CKIRCH; 01-01-2008 at 04:11 PM.. Reason: Just changing the options, so that i get notified with the answers