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# 1  
Old 03-01-2010
Not able to send multiple attachments using uuencode and mailx
Hi,
I am seeing some junk characters when I attach the second file, given below is the logic I used. Please help me resolving the issue.

Code:
( uuencode file1.txt file1.txt.lst && uuencode file2.txt file2.txt.lst )  > attachment.txt
cat body.txt attachment.txt > combinemail.txt
mailx -m "Subject text" mailIDFile.txt < combinemail.txt


Thanks
Prasanna
Last edited by Scott; 03-01-2010 at 02:32 AM.. Reason: Code tags please...
# 2  
Old 03-01-2010
You can use the following command to attach the two files using mail command.

Code:
(uuencode  <filename1> <filename1> ; uuencode <filename2> <filename2>) | mailx -s "SUBJECT" <EMAILID>

# 3  
Old 03-01-2010
I tried it too, but facing the same issue
Code:
(cat body.txt; uuencode  <filename1> <filename1> ; uuencode <filename2> <filename2>) | mailx -s "SUBJECT" <EMAILID>

Last edited by Scott; 03-01-2010 at 02:32 AM.. Reason: Code tags
# 4  
Old 03-01-2010
What your body.txt contains? Will body.txt contains body of the mail?
# 5  
Old 03-01-2010
I tried your code in my system.It is working perfectly.

Code:
(cat body.txt; uuencode  <filename1> <filename1> ; uuencode <filename2> <filename2>) | mailx -s "SUBJECT" <EMAILID>

We can also specify subject to the mail using echo command as follows.

Code:
(echo "Body of the Mail"; uuencode  <filename1> <filename1> ; uuencode <filename2> <filename2>) | mailx -s "SUBJECT" <EMAILID>

# 6  
Old 03-01-2010
Think there might be a bug on my mail server (Lotus notes) not able to decode multiple attachments. Referred the following link.
http://linux.die.net/man/1/uuencode.

Tried the following in the command prompt, but still giving junk characters for the second file
uuencode first first.txt | uuencode second second.txt.| mailx -s "Sub " mailid
(first and second are valid files)

Please let me know if it can be resolved.
Thanks,
Srivatsan
# 7  
Old 03-01-2010
uuencode doesn't work on all mail agents.
e.g: usually it's ok on solaris but not on typical linux
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