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Old 10-12-2006
Sending html attachment thru mailx

Hi,
I want to send html file as attachment using mailx command on linux machine.
Has anybody done this before ?
Appreciate your help !

Regards,
Dnyanesh
# 9  
Old 10-12-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mar1006
uuencode "filename" | mail -s "subject" "mail_id".
it is attaching file but subject is not showing in mail.b'se sun solaris 5.9 does not allow mail command to show subject.

how to do it.
what happens when you do this in the script?

uuencode filename filename | mailx -s "subject" user@somewhere.com
# 10  
Old 10-12-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by ghostdog74
what happens when you do this in the script?

uuencode filename filename | mailx -s "subject" user@somewhere.com
ghostdog74 has indicated the correct option, on Solaris the mailx command rather then mail should be used to do this.
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