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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sendmail Script: Gmail cannot find attachments Post 302651949 by Wahooka on Wednesday 6th of June 2012 11:19:51 AM
Old 06-06-2012
Sendmail Script: Gmail cannot find attachments
Hi.

I am using a script on HP-UX to send emails that include a Pdf attachment to clients. The scipt makes use of sendmail.

The scripts works for everything except gmail. When I go on gmail via my Web Browser, I can see the message with the attachment, but if I try to view or download the attachment, gmail tells me that the attachment cannot be found at its original source.

If I use this same script to send the message to my hotmail account or my work email, everything is fine.

Can somebody please help? The script is shown below.

Code:
echo "From: ${MAIL_FROM}" > $MSG_FILE
echo "To: ${MAIL_TO}" >> $MSG_FILE
echo "Subject: ${SUBJECT}" >> $MSG_FILE
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0" >> $MSG_FILE
echo 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--_GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw"' >> $MSG_FILE
echo " " >> $MSG_FILE
echo "----_GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw" >> $MSG_FILE
echo "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1" >> $MSG_FILE
echo "Content-Disposition: inline" >> $MSG_FILE
echo " " >> $MSG_FILE
cat $BODY_FILE >> $MSG_FILE
echo " " >> $MSG_FILE
echo "----_GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw" >> $MSG_FILE
echo "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" >> $MSG_FILE
echo "Content-Disposition: inline; filename=${ATT_FILE_NAME}" >> $MSG_FILE
echo "Content-transfer-encoding: X-UUencode">>${MSG_FILE}
echo " " >> $MSG_FILE
/usr/bin/uuencode  ${ATT_FILE} ${ATT_FILE} >> ${MSG_FILE}
echo " " >> $MSG_FILE
echo "----_GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw--" >> $MSG_FILE
echo " " >> $MSG_FILE
/usr/lib/sendmail ${MAIL_TO} < ${MSG_FILE};EXITSTATUS=$?

Last edited by methyl; 06-06-2012 at 12:34 PM.. Reason: not finished ; please use code tags
 

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uudemon

uudemon(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							uudemon(4)

NAME

       uudemon.admin,  uudemon.cleanu,	uudemon.hour,  uudemon.poll  -	Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool
       directories, reporting status to the system administrator, and routine invocations of the uuxqt and uusched daemons

SYNOPSIS

       These shell scripts reside in the following directory:
	  /usr/lib/uucp

DESCRIPTION

       All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the  scripts,  remove
       the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file.

       This  script  reports  status  to  the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the
       results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID  (uucpa)	or
       root.  This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com-
       mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1.  This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background.  This
       script  polls  the  systems  listed  in	the  /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file.  The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour
       script. This allows uudemon.poll to create any command files before cron runs the uudemon.hour script.

FILES

       Contains the uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour and uudemon.poll files.  Contains the uucp file.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: cron(8), uucleanup(8), uusched(8), uuxqt(1)

       Files: /usr/lib/uucp delim off

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