UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

HI,
I am sending a html attachment with the help of mailx and uuencode command ..but it is not working properly..
Following are the commands i tried out.

parmdir=/opt/dwqa1/TEST/status_test
uuencode $parmdir/some.html $parmdir/some.html | mailx -s TEST ajoshi@yahoo.com

But in the mail it comming as corrupted file..
FOllowing are the conmtains of the mail..

begin 664 /opt/dwqa1/TEST/status_test/some.html
.5"!M86EL"F5N:F]Y(0H`
`
end

Is there any problem in the server...or is there nay problem in the OS..we are using linux...

Thanks in Advance!

Make a small text file, and try to do the same thing with it. Results good or bad, you will know a lot more about the issue.

uuencode sample.txt sample.txt | mailx -s "Subject Line" ajoshi@yahoo.com

Update us with your results. Also, with specifics on unix version, hardware, etc...

Thanks for your reply!

I checked in my system..."nail" command is working fine....

As you said i have tried with '.txt' file and it working fine..

nail -s TEST -a $value/some.txt ajoshi@yahoo.com

Now the problem with this command is every time when we use "nail" command we have to press "cntrl +D"
I have to use this command in shell scripting....can anybody tell me..how to use the above command in scripting... ..(since in automated script we can not press contrl + D everytime)

Thanks in Advance!

It's expecting input from the terminal; tell it to expect input from /dev/null instead.

Code:

nail -s TEST -a $value/some.txt ajoshi@yahoo.com </dev/null

uuencode is pretty ancient; perhaps you should use a proper MIME sending client instead, these days (maybe nail is such a beast? Never heard of it before). See the FAQ forum for more on this topic.

Thanks for your immedatie reply!

While searching , i have found out "mutt' command...
"nail" is generally used in the Linux...While searching in the google i found out that in Linux " instead of using 'mailx' command,use 'nail'..and it is working fine..only the problem is that we have to press 'control +D ' after the 'nail' command...

I tried using '/dev/null' ..no need to use 'control +D'..but i am not getting th mail..

Thanks All for helping me out....
Finally it working fine!