Send Mail with attachment and a body

[Perderabo]

Originally posted by Ygor
Syntax is:

(  cat body.txt 
   uuencode pic.jpg pic.jpg
) | mailx -s "subject" abc@xyz.com

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.