Attaching binary files

[columb]

I have a perl script which runs as expected on IBM AIX 5.1 ML7 but fails under RedHad Linux 2.4.21-27.ELsmp.
The relevant part of the code is to do with attaching binary files. I open a pipe to sendmail and then the relevant part of the code goes

    print OFH "--$boundary\n";
    print OFH "Content-type: Application/Octet-stream; name=$shortname; type=binary\n";
    print OFH "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$shortname\n";
    print OFH "Content-Transfer-Encoding: X-UUencode\n\n";
    print OFH `uuencode $file $file`;

If the file is sent from an AIX server all is well, from the Linux server the file arrives with the 'Content-Disposition' and 'Content-Transfer-Encoding' lines prepended and the rest of the file still uuencoded.

If I'm posting in the wrong forum forgive me. I couldn't quite decide whether this belonged in sendmail or linux.

Columb Healy

 

[nivone]

HI,

I guess there is a problem with one of your headers, but you didn't supply all the code here.
Anyway, take a look at this HTML page, it is a sample meesage for sending attachments with uuencode.
Take a look at how the headers look like.

http://www.hunnysoft.com/mime/samples/messages/m2010.txt

 

[columb]

Thanks for your help. I compared the example you gave with my output and it turned out that the file name should be in quotes in, for example,

print OFH "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$shortname\n";

should be

print OFH "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$shortname\"\n";

Columb Healy

 

[nivone]

You're welcome!