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Old 05-02-2010
Sending Attachment using MIME in UNIX
Hi,

I am using the below code for sending attachment in UNIX but only blank attachment is coming in email even the content is not coming.

Please help!!!

Code:
export CONTENT="${DIR}/${RUN_DATE}_mailbody.txt"
export SUBJECT="Search Result for Pattern - ${1}"
export ATTACH=${2}
(
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit"
echo "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=_----------=_10167391557129230"
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
echo "To: ${EMAIL_ADR}"
echo "Subject: ${SUBJECT}"
echo "--_----------=_10167391557129230"
echo "Content-Type: text/html"
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"
echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
cat ${CONTENT}
echo "--_----------=_10167391557129230"
echo 'Content-Type: application; name="'$(basename $ATTACH)'"'
echo "Content-Type: application/text; name=$ATTACH"
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64"
echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'$(basename $ATTACH)'"'
echo "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$ATTACH"
echo "--_----------=_10167391557129230--"
echo "."

Thanks,
Rajesh
Last edited by Scott; 05-02-2010 at 06:24 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 05-02-2010
is there some reason not to use uuencode?

Code:
uuencode ${2} ${2} | /usr/bin/mailx -s "$SUBJECT" < $CONTENT

# 3  
Old 05-02-2010
Hi,

I need the email in HTML format that's why I am using MIME.

Thanks,
Rajesh
# 4  
Old 05-02-2010
Hard to follow from the script posted whether you want the html to appear in the message body or in as an attachment.
Also it would help to see examples of the data and the command used to invoke the script.


If you need an attachment, maybe try jim mcnamara's post with an attachment filename ending in ".htm" and leave the hard work to the mail client.
# 5  
Old 05-02-2010
I want the message body in HTML format and the attachment as it is.
# 6  
Old 05-02-2010
Thank you for the examples.
# 7  
Old 05-02-2010
Does this shell script even work? There are no spaces between echo and the string to be echoed, e.g.
Code:
echo"MIME-Version:1.0"
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