Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Unix Gurus,

Need your help regarding a weird issue that I'm facing. I have an automated unix script that sends out PGP encrypted reports/feeds to our users as mail attahments. Every thing has been going well and all the users have no issues except one, who instead of getting the attachment, gets some scrambled text as message body.

The mailx command I use is as follows after setting appropriate values for the variables:

Code:

uuencode "${scriptDir}/${outFileName}" "${outFileName}" | mailx -r ${sendersMailId} -s "${subjectLine}" ${emailAddresses}

The users' mail looks as follows:

Code:

begin 644
test.xls.pgp
MA0(. TYTGI40$<@I$ @ DMV12\R**?G(LVR[B
^KKP:Y6??5J$D$/7*=AS>/
M.0N@XF#XM7A,% [X]E)-+T+2:]4[2M
*1U+HV>$C"('4CM]',T+MZFZ>IU(7
MUG#O2]&:K5\*V?'XER;
%@4M5?:XBO2'<_D"VM5X)>1-T3_1<A3TA?D&^"'N
MRON(7:L$A"8%R
93)*1RMDTY
DMJ486BH<GA,OO0J3Y>\,#.!E2N@U_*ZPK?+=$+5_I$.G9\Q;
 
end

All the other recepients in the same command (variable emailAddresses) are getting the mail with proper attachment. My guess is that some thing is wrong with the end users mail server setup.

Was wondering if anyone of you ever faced such an issue and if yes, how you fixed it?

regards,
Arun.

Could it be that the one user having problems is using a different mail client to view his mails? Had something similar with users using a web front end. The attachment was just rubbish in their case. All others had no problem. I don't remember though how I solved to problem to be honest; it was some years ago, sorry. Maybe it was just asking the receiver to use another mail client or I sent him the file on another way.