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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers mail or mailx attachment Post 65536 by brettmartin99 on Monday 7th of March 2005 03:50:15 AM
Old 03-07-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by RTM
You need to be more specific about your problem:


If you use mailx -s "test" myself@somedomain.com < /etc/hosts
do you get the email with a subject as 'test'?
If you use mailx -s "test" myself@somedomain.com < uuencodefile, what happens?

Please explain further on stating "mailx does not attach the file" versus "substituting mailx for mail...attaches the file"
To clarify:

I want to send email from UNIX with an attachment (a csv) and a subject, we are using HP-UX 11.11.

When I use the mailx command from my original post the file I am trying to attach does not appear as an attachment, it is embeddded within the message, and the subject is shown.

When I use mail the file does appear as an attachment in Outlook, but I can only get this to work when I don't specify a subject, as below:

mail me@mydomain < uuencoded file

If I specify a subject the error is returned:

mail: illegal option -- s
usage: mail [+] [-epqr] [-f file]
mail [-dt] persons

For the tests you suggested: Using the first command line I get the word test in the subject and the hosts file in the message area.

The second test has the same result as the first.

Cheers

Brett.
 

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biff

biff(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   biff(1)

NAME

       biff - Notifies users when mail arrives

SYNOPSIS

       biff [y | n]

DESCRIPTION

       The  biff  command  informs the system whether you want to be notified when mail arrives during the current terminal session. The following
       command enables notification: biff y

       The following command disables notification: biff n

       When mail notification is enabled, the From: and Subject: header lines and up to the first five lines of the  message  are  displayed.  The
       total display is 560 characters, or seven lines terminated by newline characters, whichever occurs first.

       The biff y command is often included in the $HOME/.login or $HOME/.profile file to be executed each time you log in.

       The biff command operates asynchronously. For synchronous notification, use the MAIL variable of sh or ksh, or the mail variable of csh.

EXAMPLES

       To  display  the current setting, enter: biff To be notified during the current terminal session whenever mail arrives, enter the following
       in your $HOME/.login or $HOME/.profile file: biff y

FILES

       Read by login shell (after login.  User profile.

SEE ALSO

       Commands:  comsat(8), csh(1), ksh(1), mail(1), mailx(1), Bourne Shell sh(1b), POSIX Shell sh(1p)

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