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Old 08-21-2013
Email with .dat file as attachment
Hi, I am trying to email a .dat file as an attachment from unix MS-outlook.

I tried uuencode but it is not attaching the file, rather it is placing some junk data in the body of mail. Below is my code

Code:
(cat Message.txt; uuencode  Attach_File.DAT Attch_File.DAT) | mailx -s "SUBJECT" glaveti@frk.com

Can anyone please help?

Thanks
# 2  
Old 08-21-2013
this command is correct, what mail client did you use?

Can you try to send to a gmail?
# 3  
Old 08-21-2013
Yes i tried sending to gmail,but im facing the same problem
# 4  
Old 08-21-2013
You have to uudecode the junk in the body of the mail.
# 5  
Old 08-21-2013
the below code is working when iam sending it to gmail but it is not working for microsoft outlook.

Code:
(uuencode /gdw/gdw_p4/dev/gid/ff_header.txt ff_header.txt | mailx  -s "hi" xxx@gmail.com)

Last edited by vbe; 08-21-2013 at 12:53 PM.. Reason: code tags..
# 6  
Old 08-21-2013
Try converting the txt file to dos format, via unix2dos or similar, before using uuencode.
# 7  
Old 08-21-2013
Hi,

I tried converting the file using unix2dos and sent the converted file, but still I am getting the file data as corrupted data in the body of the mail and the attachment is coming. This problem is only occurring for MS_Outlook.

Thanks
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