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Old 01-15-2013
UNIX mail and wrapping
Greetings,

I am by no means a Unix expert and hope that someone here can help me out.

I am sending an email from within a Progress character program. This works fine.
My issue is that I would like to send more than 80 characters and the email is wrapping at 80 chars.

Is this an email issue? Or can I send a param on the mail command to allow for more characters?

Here is my Progress command:
Code:
 unix silent "mail -s 'Subject' user@company.com < " value(t-efilename).

The text file represented by t-efilename is 100 characters wide. The email when received wraps everything after 80 chars onto the next line.

Here is the body of the email:
Code:
                          PO DUE DATE CHANGE ALERT
   
  Item   :  105562
   
  Width  :     21.250
  Length :  43500.000
   
  Original Due Date :  01/15/13
  New Due Date      :  01/12/13
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  -------------
   
       Job  Scheduled Date/Time      Customer                   Qty
  Ordered   Remaining
   -------  -----------------------  -------------------------
  -----------  ----------
    785324  02/12/2013 07:31:08.000  GC Company
  1,500.00  192,708.33

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

RA
Last edited by Nosredna; 01-15-2013 at 02:51 PM.. Reason: Add
# 2  
Old 01-15-2013
Can you double check if your email client is wrapping texts after 80 chars?

I'm not familiar with progress character program, another option is to convert your file into HTML and specify the line breaks <br> thus avoiding the wrapping issue.
# 3  
Old 01-15-2013
Thanks for the reply.

HTML is an option for sure.

As for the wrapping, the crappy thing is that I am not whitelisted on my clients site (yet) so I cannot use my email address to test the output. I am having the email forwarded to me.......

Very inefficient and time consuming but it's all I have right now. I will ask about the wrapping in email.
# 4  
Old 01-15-2013
If you have access to the unix command line can you try an mail the file without going through progress eg:
Code:
$ mail -s 'Subject' user@company.com < /tmp/your_mail_file

This way we can rule out anything related to the progress character client.
# 5  
Old 01-15-2013
Ran it from the command line. Waiting to hear from my client as to how it looks.

More later.....

---------- Post updated at 03:22 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:21 PM ----------

Looks exactly the same.
# 6  
Old 01-15-2013
Alright. So your client's email application is the culprit, not your progress code. I guess now they should figure out what settings need to be changed to avoid this wrapping.

OR convert your file to HTML as suggested earlier.
# 7  
Old 01-15-2013
As bipinajith said earlier there is a very good chance it's the email client wrapping the text.

Wonder if they are using a unix character mail viewer like mutt or pine.
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