Shell Programming and Scripting

The attachment comes as an inline text to my lotus email id. But my requirement is to send it as an attachment.....

Ok but did you try to send the mail to an external mail like someone@yahoo.com or someone@gmail.com ?
and check wether you also get it inline ?

Maybe your server does not allow attachement sending and put it inline ?
Have you ever been able to send an attachement in the past ? (not by using your script, but just by sending it normally)

It looks like your uuencode program is just copying the file as-is, can you check this by doing a uuencode from the command line, you should see something like this:

Code:

 $ cat file1
aa bb cc
 
$ uuencode file1 file1
begin 644 file1
)86$@8F(@8V,*
`
end

I tried sending the attachment to email like someone@yahoo.com or someone@gmail.com and am getting it as expected i.e. the files are attached to the email.

But even i tried sending mails to my lotus id manually with two attachments and am able to view the two files as an attachment.Am facing issue when i send it as an attachment through script to my lotus ID.

This demonstrate that the mail you have generated is correct so that it is not the source cause of your problem.

The cause of your problem should be a faulty configuration somewhere in the transfer and/or reception part.

Next question is : when sending your mail to external address, does it go through the same SMTP server than when sending to your Lotus Notes ?

Or is the SMTP server setup with some special rules for the mails whose destination is internal to the society (Lotus Notes) ?

Or is your Lotus Notes Client configured a specific way ?
Are your client and server version up to date ? (maybe missing some patch containing MIME conversion fix ?)

so do we need to write script for MIME conversion? i have a sample script which is used for MIME conversion but that script can be used to send only one attachment ....

what type of file are you sending as attachement ?
(Lotus may embedded image file inline whereas they are sent as attachment).
You can then try to create a zip file containing your files and try to send the zip file as attachement.