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# 1  
Old 05-05-2010
Not able to attach text in body of email while sending mail with attachment
Hi,

We have been trying to send mail with attachment and it is going fine, but when we try to attach a text to the body of the email, we find that the mail is going fine with the body text but the attachment is not going through. We are using ksh.

The command that is successfull without the body of text is;
Code:
uuencode sourcefile sendfile | mailx -s "Test" -r email1@.com email2@.com

The following command sends the mail with the body text but not attachment;
Code:
 
uuencode sourcefile sendfile | mailx -s "Test" -r email1@.com email2@.com < test.txt

In the second command the "test.txt" file has the body text of the mail.

We would like to send mail with attachment and with some text in the body of the mail.

Can someone help me in this case. Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 05-05-2010
Code:
( echo "some msg" ; uuencode sourcefile sendfile ) | mailx .....

# 3  
Old 05-05-2010
try this,

Code:
( cat mesgfile ; uuencode Test.dat Test.dat ) | mailx -s 'Testing' mymail@yahoo.com

# 4  
Old 05-05-2010
Code:
( cat test.txt ; uuencode sourcefile sendfile ) | mailx -s "Test" -r email1@.com email2@.com

This will work for you.However if you get difficulty in getting the attachments through cron , do let know.

Gaurav
UNIX IN BLOOD !!
Last edited by Franklin52; 05-05-2010 at 09:58 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
# 5  
Old 05-05-2010
Thanks - it worked!!
Hi,

Thanks Pravin and Gaurav, the code given below worked fine. Thanks a lot for this help.

Quote:
Originally Posted by gauravgarg
( cat test.txt ; uuencode sourcefile sendfile ) | mailx -s "Test" -r email1@.com email2@.com

This will work for you.However if you get difficulty in getting the attachments through cron , do let know.

Gaurav
UNIX IN BLOOD !!
# 6  
Old 05-06-2010
Need to give color to text in mail sent from unix
Hi,

Pravin/Gaurav,

I am able to send a mail successfully from unix with the following script;

Code:
 
(echo "From: $REPLY"
echo "To: $DLIST"
echo "Cc: $DLIST_CC"
echo "subject: $DESCR1"
echo "$DESCR2"
echo ""
echo "$DESCR3"
echo ""
cat $CONNREP) | sendmail $DLIST

The data which is included in the mail from "cat $CONNREP" is from a file and I would like this to be in a different color like Blue or Red. Is this possible from Unix.

Sorry to bother you with this question as I could not get a satisfying answer from elsewhere.
# 7  
Old 05-07-2010
Hi,

Try the following syntax :
Code:
FGRED=`echo "\033[31m"`
FGCYAN=`echo "\033[36m"`
BGRED=`echo "\033[41m"`
FGBLUE=`echo "\033[35m"`
NORMAL=`echo "\033[m"`

and after :
Code:
echo "${FGBLUE} Text in blue ${NORMAL}"
echo "Text normal"
echo "${BGRED} Background in red"
etc...
 
echo "${FGBLUE} Text in blue ${NORMAL}"

Last edited by Scott; 05-07-2010 at 07:17 AM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
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