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Sendmail isn't responsible for attaching attachments to e-mail - it's up to the mail user agent (mail client) to attach items to e-mail messages. Sendmail is just the transport.<br>
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If you're using sendmail as a mail client, you should really consider taking a look at mail, mailx, or, even better, pine.<br>
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Out of interest, to send an attachment to an e-mail from the command line, you could uuencode it as follows:<br>
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echo "This is my attachment:\n\n`uuencode myattachment myattachment`" ¦ mailx -s"Test sending uuencoded attachment" <A HREF="mailto:someone@somewhere.com">someone@somewhere.com</A>
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If you're using sendmail as a mail client, you should really consider taking a look at mail, mailx, or, even better, pine.<br>
<br>
Out of interest, to send an attachment to an e-mail from the command line, you could uuencode it as follows:<br>
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echo "This is my attachment:\n\n`uuencode myattachment myattachment`" ¦ mailx -s"Test sending uuencoded attachment" <A HREF="mailto:someone@somewhere.com">someone@somewhere.com</A>
To add to the jmccreary's questions: I create filename.txt files on an AIX box and want to email these files not as text but attachments to an nt exchange user. I have aliases for the users to route the mail or mailx messages but do not understand how to attach the file, I only get the content of the files. Sorry to add to the question, not to the solution.
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On our AIX box, inside our software, I setup pseudo printers for each user (see below) and aliases with the unix id=exchange email address.
Example for user 80. This is a .SH on our system for user 080, I called it 080email.sh, it is called as a printer and emails any report output to the user as an attachment called TRENDRPT.WRI with a RE of Trend Auto Report. I picked WRI as it was not commonly used by other programs in our environment.
uuencode $2 TRENDRPT.WRI | mail -s "Trend Auto Report" 080
Example for user 80. This is a .SH on our system for user 080, I called it 080email.sh, it is called as a printer and emails any report output to the user as an attachment called TRENDRPT.WRI with a RE of Trend Auto Report. I picked WRI as it was not commonly used by other programs in our environment.
uuencode $2 TRENDRPT.WRI | mail -s "Trend Auto Report" 080
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