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[HHG]

Hi,

Has anyone sent an attachement against an email from Unix to Groupwise. If so how have you done this. I don't want to cat the contents of the file within the email. Its needs tobe a file.

Hope someone can help.

 

[sunixadm]

Hi,

Try this:
uuencode file.name file.name | mailx -s "SUBJECT" joe.blow@email.com

You can use the -v switch with mailx for verbose output. You could also use mail instead of mailx.

Hope this helps!

-Joe

 

[HHG]

Hi Joe,

Can you give me another example, I have a file called test.csv are you saying I type in a syntax as follows:-

uuencode file.test.txt | mailx -s "TEST FILE" [Email address]

I just tried this ad I got the following message: -
uuencode: ISO8859-15 to 646 conversion: Invalid argument

I have obviously typed it in incorrect.

Sorry I am new to sun unix.

 

[sunixadm]

Hi,

You have to enter the file name twice in the command line.
Be careful with files ending in .txt. Some E-Mail programs will read the contents of a *.txt file and instead of attaching the file, include the contents in the body of the E-Mail.

The command should be:
uuencode file.test.txt file.test.txt | mailx -s "TEST FILE" [Email address]

-Joe

 

[HHG]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for this, but

Tried this worked and got a file to my email, but with no attachement. I have just looked at the files I need to send and will be able to send this without an extension i.e. .txt. However, I still got an error message as follows: -
uuencode: ISO8859-15 to 646 conversion: Invalid argument

I typed in the follwing: -

uuencode file.test file.test| mailex -s "TEST FILE" [email address which ends with not a .com but .org.uk]

Any other thoughts

 

[sunixadm]

Hi,

I'm not familiar with that error message, but it shouldn't be fatal. I can't figure out what the problem is, but you should be able to receive the file.

Try including the path to file as such:

uuencode /etc/inetd.conf inetd.conf | mailx -v -s "subject" [e-mail address]

Be sure to use the -v switch and maybe it will shed some light on what is happening.

-Joe

 

[steeltown89]

HHG, you type mailex....instead of mailx...