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Old 03-04-2007
Mail Attachment : What am I doing wrong ?
Ok, I have read so many threads here but still can't figure out what I am doing wrong.

When I type the following on the Unix prompt it works perfectly fine.

uuencode attach.txt attach..html | mail -s "My Subject" me@somewhere.com

But if I put it in a file like below and execute it:-
------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/ksh

uuencode attach.txt attach..html | mail -s "My Subject" me@somewhere.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The attachment comes inside the body of the email unreadable like below:

begin 660 attach..html
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
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
# 2  
Old 03-04-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kartheg
Ok, I have read so many threads here but still can't figure out what I am doing wrong.

When I type the following on the Unix prompt it works perfectly fine.

uuencode attach.txt attach..html | mail -s "My Subject" me@somewhere.com

But if I put it in a file like below and execute it:-
------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/ksh

uuencode attach.txt attach..html | mail -s "My Subject" me@somewhere.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The attachment comes inside the body of the email unreadable like below:

begin 660 attach..html
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
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
What you see is the attachment as encoded data.

Your email client is supposed to recognize this as an attachment, to decode it automatically and present it as an attachment..
E.g. Mailx is not capable to recognize the attachment. You would have to save the email to a file and then run uudecode on that file.

Are you using the same "to" email address when executing the command on the command line or from within the script?

Is there a blank line between the email headers and the line "begin 660 attach..html"?

Is the last line of the email "end"?
# 3  
Old 03-04-2007
Yes I am using the same TO e-mail. I cut and pasted in Unix prompt.

The e-mail I recieved has blanks in the TO & Subject fields when I ran the script. From the UNiX prompt is perfect.

Yes there is an End. The other option I have is to put the content as the body, but still there is problem cause the contents are not treated as text and it comes out wierd.

M(" @(" @(" @(" @(" @*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*@HJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ(" @
M(" @(" @(" @(" @(" @("HJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BH**BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ
I*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ"@HJ

end
# 4  
Old 03-04-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kartheg
Yes I am using the same TO e-mail. I cut and pasted in Unix prompt.

The e-mail I recieved has blanks in the TO & Subject fields when I ran the script. From the UNiX prompt is perfect.

Yes there is an End. The other option I have is to put the content as the body, but still there is problem cause the contents are not treated as text and it comes out wierd.

M(" @(" @(" @(" @(" @*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*@HJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ(" @
M(" @(" @(" @(" @(" @("HJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BH**BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ
I*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ"@HJ

end
Try "mailx" instead of "mail"
# 5  
Old 03-04-2007
Yes it works
Yes, works perfect now.

Thanks very much.

Kartheg.
 
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