We've been emailing uuencode'd PDF files as attachments with mailx for quite sometime with no problems. Recently we've expanded the volume and have intermittent problems with recipients unable to open the attachment. The same file can be successfully resent at a different time.
It's been suggested we move from basic uuencode to MIME/Base64. To accomplish that we added "-m" to uuencode. The file is Base64 encoded, but rather than being an attachment to the message, it's in the body of the message as the encoded text which of course is not acceptable.
This sends the email with the PDF file as an attachment
This puts the encoded text into the body of the message
Any suggested remedies would be MUCH appreciated.
I have used the forum to determine the format required to send attachments from hp-ux 11. the problem I have is that using mailx does not attach the file, but subsititing mailx for mail on the command line attaches the file but i'm not able to specify a subject?
The attachment has been convert... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have tried to sent a mail with body and attachment. But the shell script got hanging while executing that command. The command is
"(cat body;uuencode att1.csv)|mailx -s "Production Monitoring Report(Unix Side)" milton.yesusundaram@patni.com"
where body is a file having a single line.... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to send a mail with an attachment and message. Following command I am using.
(cat <messagefile> ; uuencode <attachmentfile> <attachmentfile>)|mailx -s"Subject" dave@email.com
In the received mail, message body is appearing fine. But attachment is not coming. Rather... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am using mailx command to send a mail with attachment. It's working fine, but with attachment I am getting one extra attachment like (ATT00131.txt). I have tried to use unix2dos command also. But still I am getting the extra attachment.
I am using the following code:
subject="temp... (5 Replies)
I don't want the attachment embedded in the mail. I would like a file attached.
When I do
mailx -s "Report, `date +'%D %r` " -r "Notifications" bob@bob.com < /usr/local/bin/myreport.log> /dev/null
It gets embedded in my email. I want a file attachment. How do I do that? (2 Replies)
Hi All,
Can anyone please provide the command for sending an mail with attachment using mailx command.
Thanks in Advance :)
Regards,
Siram. (3 Replies)
mailx with -m command sending emails with attachments correctly to all users except users who have email on microsoft exchange server. They are receiving attachments as garbled text in mail body (5 Replies)
Hi,
When i used below command, i am able to send mail
mailx -s "Testing mail working or not " babu.sudhakar@ymail.com"
but if i want send attachment with mail,which syntax i need to follow to send a file as attachment. (3 Replies)
Hi Friends,
Please help me with this problem.
I have a number of split files in a directory. each split files has pdf filenames in it. pdf files are also in the same directory.
I send a mail for each split files present in the directory with the pdf file mentioned in the file.
I have... (4 Replies)
Hello, I am new to the Unix thing, and I am having trouble sending attachments via shell client putty through mailx.
The command I use is
$ mailx -s "Subject" user@blah.com < attachment.txt
but everytime I do that it would say Cannot open attachment.txt
I have the file save to my computer... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: mrobin20
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
uuencode
uuencode(n) Text encoding & decoding binary data uuencode(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
uuencode - UU-encode/decode binary data
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8
package require uuencode ?1.1.4?
::uuencode::encode string
::uuencode::decode string
::uuencode::uuencode ?-name string? ?-mode octal? (-file filename | ?--? string)
::uuencode::uudecode (-file filename | ?--? string)
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
This package provides a Tcl-only implementation of the uuencode(1) and uudecode(1) commands. This encoding packs binary data into printable
ASCII characters.
::uuencode::encode string
returns the uuencoded data. This will encode all the data passed in even if this is longer than the uuencode maximum line length. If
the number of input bytes is not a multiple of 3 then additional 0 bytes are added to pad the string.
::uuencode::decode string
Decodes the given encoded data. This will return any padding characters as well and it is the callers responsibility to deal with
handling the actual length of the encoded data. (see uuencode).
::uuencode::uuencode ?-name string? ?-mode octal? (-file filename | ?--? string)
::uuencode::uudecode (-file filename | ?--? string)
UUDecode a file or block of data. A file may contain more than one embedded file so the result is a list where each element is a
three element list of filename, mode value and data.
OPTIONS -filename name
Cause the uuencode or uudecode commands to read their data from the named file rather that taking a string parameter.
-name string
The uuencoded data header line contains the suggested file name to be used when unpacking the data. Use this option to change this
from the default of "data.dat".
-mode octal
The uuencoded data header line contains a suggested permissions bit pattern expressed as an octal string. To change the default of
0644 you can set this option. For instance, 0755 would be suitable for an executable. See chmod(1).
EXAMPLES
% set d [uuencode::encode "Hello World!"]
2&5L;&\@5V]R;&0A
% uuencode::uudecode $d
Hello World!
% set d [uuencode::uuencode -name hello.txt "Hello World"]
begin 644 hello.txt
+2&5L;&@5V]R;&0`
`
end
% uuencode::uudecode $d
{hello.txt 644 {Hello World}}
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category base64
of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
either package and/or documentation.
KEYWORDS
encoding, uuencode
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2002, Pat Thoyts
base64 1.1.4 uuencode(n)