Hi All,

I am using a shell script where i will be sending a mail with some text/message in it and an attachment.

The problem starts here:

i am not able to do both the things together. i.e., either i am able to send some message or an attachment.

the problem is not only with my script the mail command of unix is also outputing the same result. What i would like to know is, do i have to do some settings or please tell me what am i doing wrong.

from the command line i am using:

1.) uuencode pic.jpg pic.jpg | mail abc@xyz.com < body.txt

2.) (cat body.txt uuencode pic.jpg pic.jpg) | mail abc@xyz.com body.txt

and many more.

please help

Regards,
Manoj

See this thread.

Thank you very much.

Syntax is:

I tried that on both HP-UX and SunOS. It works on SunOS but fails on HP-UX. I'm not sure how it will behave on other systems. On Linux, I didn't find a mailx, but I tried mail and it worked with that.

With HP-UX, I get a a large body that has the line line of body.txt immediately followed by a "begin 775 xyz.jpg" line. This is actually the behavior that I would expect. It works on SunOS because Sun's mailx is inspecting the mailed text and guessing at the placement of the mime headers. On SunOS, if I switch from mailx to mail, it no longer works.

This would seem to mean that if I intentionally wanted to include a uuencoded item in my body, that Sun's mailx would not let me.