AIX Native Mail and attachments

[ytakbob]

IS there any way to include an attachment along with a message sent from AIX mail. I am aware of ability to pipe a file contents into the body of the message and also using the ~r to read in a file.

 

[Guest_imported]

Try this from the prompt:

$ mailx -s subject touser@domain.com < file.ur.sending

that should send your mailfile to the intended recipient. Hope it helps.

 

[Riaan]

Also try:
$ uuencode original_file_name file_name_of_attachment | mail user@domain.com

e.g. I want to send a file from a Unix box to a windows box which can understand file extenstions. The .txt will allow my mail reader to associate the file with my default text reader
$ uuencode logs logs.txt | mail user@domain.com

 

[raj71]

hi Riaan

I tried this, but it seems uuencode file is not available. Is there any other way to mail attachments using mail, mailx

thanks
raj

 

[allusedup]

Check that the bos.net.uucp fileset exists as per below,

# lslpp -l bos.net.uucp
Fileset Level State Description
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
bos.net.uucp 4.3.3.10 COMMITTED Unix to Unix Copy Program

Path: /etc/objrepos
bos.net.uucp 4.3.3.0 COMMITTED Unix to Unix Copy Program


Once installed uuencode/uudecode should work fine.