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# 8  
Old 12-07-2010
did you try as suggested in post #4 ?
# 9  
Old 12-07-2010
Yes....but it dint work as expected.....the file contents are available in the body of the email and they are not reffered as a separate attachment.
# 10  
Old 12-07-2010
Make sure that the client you use to open an read the email, doesn't have an activated option to put attachement as 'inline text' (i think there is such an option in Thunderbird for example).
# 11  
Old 12-07-2010
Can you please let me know i how can i implement through script for sending an email with two attachments.
# 12  
Old 12-07-2010
I have tried your code as well which works fine except for one thing. Assuming 'Hi' is not a file, you could use echo to instead of cat.
Code:
( echo Hi; uuencode "$File1" "$File1"; uuencode "$File2" "$File2") | mail -s "attachment" abc@xyz.com

As suggested by ctsgnb there could be problem in your email client. However can you post your full code..
# 13  
Old 12-07-2010
This is my code

Code:
#! /bin/ksh
export EMAILLIST="abc@xyz.com"
cd /home2/data
File1=`ls -lrt *_Accepted.* | tail -1 | awk '{print ($9)}'`
File2=`ls -lrt *_Rejected.* | tail -1 | awk '{print ($9)}'`
echo $File1
echo $File2
SUBJECT="Two Attachment Email"
BODY="Kindly refer the attachment" > /home2/data/email_body.txt
# send an email using /bin/mail
(cat /home2/data/email_body.txt; uuencode "$File1" "$File1"; uuencode "$File2" "$File2") | mail -s "$SUBJECT" $EMAILLIST

Expected Result:
Quote:
Email should be recieved with two attachments and the email body should only contain "Kindly refer the attachment"
Actual Result:
Quote:
Email is recieved with no attachments and the file contents are printed in the email boby and it looks like as shown below
Kindly refer the attachment
aa bb cc(file1 content)
dd ee ff(file2 content)
# 14  
Old 12-07-2010
Code:
File1=`ls -lrt *_Accepted.* | tail -1 | awk '{print ($9)}'`
File2=`ls -lrt *_Rejected.* | tail -1 | awk '{print ($9)}'`

could be shorten
Code:
File1=`ls -rt *_Accepted.* | tail -1`
File2=`ls -rt *_Rejected.* | tail -1`

Code:
echo $File1
echo $File2

are useless (except for interactively controlling the variable have correctly been assigned but echo $File1 $File2 would do the work as well

You could also have a look at this thread, maybe you are experiencing the same kind of problem.
Give a try to the following :
run your script, but change the email address, send it to some external mail address like something@gmail.com adress or any other mail provider, and check how you get your attachment (attached or inline text ?).

I think your script is ok, i suspect the problem is on the reception-side.
Last edited by ctsgnb; 12-07-2010 at 09:25 AM..
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