UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi everybody!

I needto send a mail with several attachments to a foreign recepient using the following command line:

neo$ (cat mailbody; uuencode file1 file1.txt; uuencode file2 file2.txt) | mailx -m -s "Mail with two attachments" john.hancock@mailserver.com

The result is just fine on MS-Outlook (which I use).
But on Lotus Notes (which my customer uses) - ever since they installed a new update - the mail looks somewhat different: file1.txt is attached, file2.txt is included in the body as uuencoded plain text.

Can anyone give me a hint on what is going wrong?

Thanks
marvin70

Mutt should handle multiple attachments. (Never used for multiple, but the documents say it can.)

See the following link from HP support
IT Resource Center forums - script send email attachment

which includes someone's sample script for doing two attachments.

Or more generally investigate how you could use MIME instead of uuencode to include the attachments. The FAQ has a tool for this which you can download. Still, Notus is Notus, so you might simply be out of luck.

Thank you joeyg - the solution from the link that also worked for me was using elm (rather than mutt) instead of mailx. I didn't know you could use elm from the command line.