We are running solaris 9.
I can send emails using mailx with no problems.
I can send attachments using uuencode no problems.
What I can't do is change the name to .txt or .doc or anything else using uuencode. The command I am using is:

uuencode /tmp/AsetReports /tmp/AsetReports.doc | mailx -s "Weekly Aset Reports" admin

The logs and using the -v option shows that the mail is being queued:
stat=Sent (Ok: queued as 6A77F500007)

There is nothing in var/spool/mqueue and I never receive the email. The mailq command also shows nothing as does the clientq.

As I mentioned, if I remove the .doc extension, I do indeed get the attachment just fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Zeek

uuencode's command-line arguments are confusing in that the optional argument is the first one (which is the attachment name), not the last one (which is the source filename). So the correct syntax for what you want should be uuencode AsetReports.doc /tmp/AsetReports.

Darn, thanks Annihilannic. I must have read the man pages a 100 times and didn't notice that. I even read a heck of a lot of posts that had them reversed like I did because that's how I got the idea to add the .doc extension.

Zeek