UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I am using Unix commands to send email with attachment from SAP. Within the organization(company email) the attachment is perfect, when I am trying to send as an web mail (yahoo) the attachment is not appearing and junk chars are coming as body.

Someone suggested that I can use MIME, but I donot know how to use, can anyone help me out with this.

Currently I am using the following command.

CONCATENATE 'uuencode' P_FNAME 'Delivery.txt' '| mailx -m -s' 'Subject' P_EMAIL
INTO UNIXCOM SEPARATED BY SPACE.

CALL 'SYSTEM' ID 'COMMAND' FIELD UNIXCOM
ID 'TAB' FIELD TABL-*SYS*.

Your promp response is highly appreciated.

Thanks
Supriya
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not sure if this will help you or not, but this is how I send attachments from unix.........

mail userr@host.com < filename.txt

this doesn't actually send as an attachment, but puts the content of the file in the body of the email, works great for me.

Supriya -- the uuencode command looks okay.
I suspect that there may be something wrong with the variable P_FNAME
maybe.

Print out the value of UNIXCOM somewhere in the SAP script and
verify that it works as is, when you copy and paste and try to
execute it.

I typically use this syntax ( no -m on mailx ):

Code:

uuencode file_nm file_nm | mailx -s "here comes file_nm" user@domain.com

The above command is working fine for me when I send the mail internally i.e within the company email id, but when I am trying to send it to Yahoo the attachment is coming as garbage as the body of the email .

CONCATENATE 'uuencode' P_FNAME 'Delivery.txt' '| mailx -m -s' 'Subject' P_EMAIL
INTO UNIXCOM SEPARATED BY SPACE.

Using the above command I get both the attachment and subject, the -m -s is to get both the subject and attachment within the company email address, but when I send it to yahoo its all becoming garbage.

Please give some suggestions.

Many Thanks
Supriya

try the below and see if it works.

mailx -m -s "Subject" to-address << eof
`uuencode filename filename`
eof