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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Attach a binary file to email in a script Post 302384426 by fwellers on Tuesday 5th of January 2010 09:34:49 AM
Old 01-05-2010
Attach a binary file to email in a script
Hi,
I am trying to get an email sent out by the unix ( aix ) system that has a .gz file attached to it.
I can get the attachment, but it's not working when being looked at from outlook.
I think there is a problem because of the way I am doing it, and the fact that it's binary.

I am trying to use mime type to attach it. This works with ascii files but not with the binary .gz file. I am thinking it's because of the way I am catting the file into the message. Not sure.
Is there a better way to do this ?

Code:
echo "To: me" >$msgfile
echo "Subject: informix specific files for DR `date` " >>$msgfile
echo "Mime-Version: 1.0" >> $msgfile
echo "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"DMW.Boundary.605592468\"" >>$msgfile
echo "" >>$msgfile
echo "--DMW.Boundary.605592468" >>$msgfile
echo "Content-type: application/octet-stream; name=\"drfile.gz\"" >>$msgfile
echo "Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=\"drfile.gz\"" >>$msgfile
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit" >>$msgfile
echo "" >>$msgfile
cat drfile.gz >>$msgfile
echo "--DMW.Boundary.605592468--" >>$msgfile
cat $msgfile|/usr/lib/sendmail -t

Thanks,
floyd
Last edited by Scott; 01-05-2010 at 11:37 PM.. Reason: Added code tags
 

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       -o, --outbox
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