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Old 10-27-2014
Uuencode for mail attachments not working
Hi,

I'm trying to send mail with attachments using uuencode, but it doesn't work.

Command (also tried with mailx):
Code:
uuencode testfile testfile | mail emailadress

The email I get doesn't have an attachment, and has this in the message body:
Code:
begin 664 testfile
%=&5S=`H`
`
end

What's going wrong?
# 2  
Old 10-27-2014
uuencode is extremely old, mail clients are beginning to not understand it. I would try sending to a different email client first, to make sure it's actually going wrong, rather than just being received by a client which doesn't understand uuencode.
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Old 10-27-2014
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Originally Posted by Corona688
uuencode is extremely old, mail clients are beginning to not understand it. I would try sending to a different email client first, to make sure it's actually going wrong, rather than just being received by a client which doesn't understand uuencode.
Thanks, the client is not a problem as it works from another system running Solaris (this one is Red Hat). I just found out about the mailx -a option which also attaches files. I guess I'll use this.
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Old 10-27-2014
That option is not available on all systems. Hopefully it works for you.
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Old 10-27-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Subbeh
Thanks, the client is not a problem as it works from another system running Solaris (this one is Red Hat). I just found out about the mailx -a option which also attaches files. I guess I'll use this.
The sharutils package that used to provide uuencode was deprecated in rhel6, since mailx is able to send MIME attachments, as you have already figured out.
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