sending more than one attahment via mailx

[RJSHA1]

Hi there,
I have been looking through the forum at how to use mailx to send an attachment to an e-mail user and the fact that you need to use uuencode to uncode the mail, but how would I send two attachments in the one e-mail; is it possible ?????

 

[johngiggs]

RJSHA1,

Using the example below, you would just need to add another uuencode line:

#!/bin/ksh

export TO=someone@somewhere.com
export FILE=myfile.dat

( cat <<-MSG
Hi There,

Please find the attached file ${FILE} as of $(date).

Cheers.
MSG
uuencode ${FILE} ${FILE}
) | mailx -s "${FILE} as of $(date)" ${TO}

so it would be:

#!/bin/ksh

export TO=someone@somewhere.com
export FILE=myfile.dat
export FILE2=myfile2.dat

( cat <<-MSG
Hi There,

Please find the attached file ${FILE} as of $(date).

Cheers.
MSG
uuencode ${FILE} ${FILE}
uuencode ${FILE2} ${FILE2}
) | mailx -s "${FILE} and ${FILE2} as of $(date)" ${TO}

John

 

[RJSHA1]

Hi john,
Sorry I'm being silly here surely the the -s is the subject line option, I can't see how you would get two files created from the second section of code.
also I have the two files created - why is there a pipe in the script before the mailx ???

 

[johngiggs]

RJSHA1,

You are encoding 2 files and piping them to mailx to be used as input which will be displayed as attachments.

Try it...It works.

John

 

[RJSHA1]

Hi john,
Thi is my code -

uuencode repfile repfile.doc > RESPREP
cat RESPREP | mailx -r $CCRECEIP -s "AFT User $USER $CTM_ODATE AFT Input Response" $CCRECEIP $RECEIP


What do I need to add in to send the second attachment.
Regards
Bob...

 

[johngiggs]

RJSHA1,

Try:

uuencode repfile repfile.doc > RESPREP
uuencode repfile another_file.doc >> RESPREP
cat RESPREP | mailx -r $CCRECEIP -s "AFT User $USER $CTM_ODATE AFT Input Response" $CCRECEIP $RECEIP

John

 

[RJSHA1]

Hi John,
Does it matter that one of the files is a pdf file ???


Bob....

 

[PHV]

uuencode is used for ANY type of file.
You may try something like this:
(uuencode repfile.doc repfile.doc;uuencode repfile.pdf repfile.pdf) |
mailx -r $CCRECEIP -s "AFT User $USER $CTM_ODATE AFT Input Response" $CCRECEIP $RECEIP


Hope This Helps, PH.
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