02-09-2012
email file as attachment...
Hello all,
i am on hp-ux 11.23...i am trying to send an email as an attachement but it dose not seem to work...after reading on google i found that we can use uuencode to send file at attachement...here is my file and the syntax
$ cat test.txt
NAME
---------
TEST
$ uuencode test.txt test.txt | mailx -s "TEST VIEW AUTOMATION"
email@domain.com
$
but now here is the problem...i do get and email with subject line as "TEST VIEW AUTOMATION"
but do not get a atttachment...get some garbage (lol) in the body as below...
begin 644 test.txt
M"DY!344@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@
M("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@"BTM+2TM+2TM
M+2`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@
M("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@"D--1$)44U0@("`@("`@("`@
M("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@
4("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@"@H@
`
end
so what am i doing wrong here ??
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NAME
mailto.conf - configuration file for cups email notifier
DESCRIPTION
The mailto.conf file defines the local mail server and email notification preferences for CUPS.
Each line in the file can be a configuration directive, a blank line, or a comment. Comment lines start with the # character.
DIRECTIVES
Cc cc-address@domain.com
Specifies an additional recipient for all email notifications.
From from-address@domain.com
Specifies the sender of email notifications.
Sendmail sendmail command and options
Specifies the sendmail command to use when sending email notifications. Only one Sendmail or SMTPServer line may be present in the
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SMTPServer servername
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Subject subject-prefix
Specifies a prefix string for the subject line of an email notification.
SEE ALSO
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