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# 8  
Old 08-15-2012
Mail clients are bad at handling uuencoded attachments these days. Some don't understand them at all, some mangle them. Best to use base64 attachments if you can, but I don't know of any way that was as straightforward as uuencode was.
# 9  
Old 08-15-2012
mail is a bit picky about char sets and what it considers binary data. Pls post text_file.txt and the result of both unix2dos and uuencode. For a pure text file, you usually don't need uuencode. Btw, the file is not an attachment but will be the mail text itself.
You can also try to display the source code of the message (<ctrl> u in thunderbird) to help debug the problem.
# 10  
Old 08-15-2012
I sftp to the unix box and I got the text and zip files and I'm able to see them both on my PC. Why I can't see it when I email it. BTW I'm not an expert in unix.
# 11  
Old 08-15-2012
Probably because something's wrong with the email one way or another.

Have you tried viewing the source of the email as suggested? We can't really see your computers from here.
# 12  
Old 08-15-2012
This is the source code:
Code:
Received: from FLDP1LUMXC7HB02.domain.com (168.68.75.85) by
MXC7HB05.domain.com (168.68.59.192) with Microsoft SMTP Server
 (TLS) id 8.3.264.0; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:31:38 -0400
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
 boundary="_8ba3ac-2ef3-4d69-84eb-0f92a29d51a5_"
Received: from omzsmtpi03.domain.com (165.122.46.173) by
 MXC7HB02.domain.com (168.68.75.85) with Microsoft SMTP Server
 id 8.3.264.0; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:31:36 -0400
To: name@domain.com
X-VzAPP: 1
X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,774,1336348800"; 
   d="scan'208";a="85187077"
X-Local: true
Received: from ndcc01-smtp1.domain.com ([148.170.124.35])  by
 omzsmtpi03.domain.com with ESMTP; 15 Aug 2012 17:31:35 +0000
Received: from pdcd35-snmcpe1.ip.mic.com (pdcd35-snmcpe1.ip.mic.com
 [208.112.196.84]) by ndcc01-smtp1.domain.com
 (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/vz-mnso-$Revision: 1.5 $) with ESMTP id q7HVZh0010433 for
 <name@one.domain.com>; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:31:35 GMT
Received: from pdcd35-snmcpe1.ip.mic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by
 pdcd35-snmcpe1.ip.mic.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q7HVJtD024085
 for <name@one.domain.com>; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:31:19 GMT
Received: (from myname@localhost) by pdcd35-snmcpe1.ip.mic.com
 (8.13.8+Sun/8.14.2/Submit) id q7FHVJbp024084 for
 name@one.domain.com; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:31:19 GMT
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:31:19 +0000
From: david.foo <myname@pdcd35-snmcpe1.ip.mic.com>
Message-ID: <201208151731.q7FHVJbp024084@pdcd35-snmcpe1.ip.mic.com>
Subject: Hi
MIME-Version: 1.0
Return-Path: myname@pdcd35-snmcpe1.ip.mic.com
X-ConvertedToMime: 1

# 13  
Old 08-16-2012
Strange. Please
a) send an e-mail interactively
b) send a simple output like ls|mail ...
c) post your text_file.txt
# 14  
Old 08-17-2012
Ok, here is my resolution;
this is the way I was doing it at first:
Code:
 
uuencode file_name.zip | mailx -s "test" my_name@domain.com

This is the right way:

Code:
 
uuencode file_name.zip fila_name.zip | mailx -s "test" my_name@domain.com

The first file_name.zip is naming the file the second file_name.zip is the actual file that you are attaching.
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