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# 1  
Old 01-05-2010
Attach a binary file to email in a script
Hi,
I am trying to get an email sent out by the unix ( aix ) system that has a .gz file attached to it.
I can get the attachment, but it's not working when being looked at from outlook.
I think there is a problem because of the way I am doing it, and the fact that it's binary.

I am trying to use mime type to attach it. This works with ascii files but not with the binary .gz file. I am thinking it's because of the way I am catting the file into the message. Not sure.
Is there a better way to do this ?

Code:
echo "To: me" >$msgfile
echo "Subject: informix specific files for DR `date` " >>$msgfile
echo "Mime-Version: 1.0" >> $msgfile
echo "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"DMW.Boundary.605592468\"" >>$msgfile
echo "" >>$msgfile
echo "--DMW.Boundary.605592468" >>$msgfile
echo "Content-type: application/octet-stream; name=\"drfile.gz\"" >>$msgfile
echo "Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=\"drfile.gz\"" >>$msgfile
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit" >>$msgfile
echo "" >>$msgfile
cat drfile.gz >>$msgfile
echo "--DMW.Boundary.605592468--" >>$msgfile
cat $msgfile|/usr/lib/sendmail -t

Thanks,
floyd
Last edited by Scott; 01-05-2010 at 11:37 PM.. Reason: Added code tags
# 2  
Old 01-05-2010
You should convert the file to mime format with b64encod(e), and I think that you need a blank line after the "Content-Transfer-Encoding" line.
# 3  
Old 01-05-2010
Thanks.
I tried to do
uuencode -m file.gz and pipe that to mailx, but it doesn't work.
Looks like it needs an output file as an argument, but it still only outputs garbled stuff to the standard out.
# 4  
Old 01-05-2010
Code:
uuencode file.gz file.gz | mailx .....

# 5  
Old 01-05-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Code:
uuencode file.gz file.gz | mailx .....

So I ran
Code:
 uuencode -m test.tar.gz test.tar.gz  | mailx  floydw@mail.org

and I got an email that looked like this:
Code:
begin-base64 644 test.tar.gz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.......

Last edited by Scott; 01-05-2010 at 11:39 PM.. Reason: Added code tags
# 6  
Old 01-05-2010
Code:
echo "subject: Something" ; cat $text_mail ; uuencode file.gz file.gz) | /usr/sbin/sendmail john@doe.nl

# 7  
Old 01-05-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by fwellers
So I ran uuencode -m test.tar.gz test.tar.gz | mailx floydw@studentclearinghouse.org

and I got an email that looked like this:
begin-base64 644 test.tar.gz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.......
... which is perfectly fine, since that is how it is supposed to look.

You'd then proceed to save the message and uudecode it to obtain the "test.tar.gz" file.

tyler_durden
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