Unix to MS-Outlook mail 1

[unixkid]

I cant figure out when mailing from unix to Ms-Exchange account the files are being sent as body of messge instead of a attchment your required to open...Running from a script the following:
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DIR=/opt/files
EMAIL=user@domain.com
LMAIL-local@domain.com
if [ ! -z `ls ${DIR}` ]
then
print "Files exist"
ls ${DIR} | while read name
do
print "Sending Files to ${LMAIL}">> ${LOGFILE}
mailx -s &quot;Files sent&quot; ${EMAIL} < ${name}
done
else
print &quot;No files found&quot; >>${LOGFILE}
exit
fi
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[bjverzal]

EMAIL=user@domain.com
LMAIL-local@domain.com

I norice that your second address has a &quot;-&quot; instead of an &quot;=&quot;. Could this be the problem ? Or just a typo during creation of this post.

BV

 

[unixkid]

yes that was typo on the post.

I found the in past day that you can't send attchments (only in body of text) via mailx program. So I'm using MIME64 script to encode the messages.

 

[MikeLacey]

Hi UnixKid,

Would you like to post your solution? This question is asked quite frequently and I've never had a really good answer... Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.

 

[unixkid]

Sure I'd be happy to post it.

If you wanted to just uuencode adding the attchement not in the body of message you can add a switch -m which says do not add MIME header lines Mime Version, Content Type & Content Encoding to the header information while sending mails.
example
# uuencode /tmp/testfile testfile.txt | mailx -m -s 'testje' test@mail.com

To acually add the MIME-64 Dave Wolton wrote a great script that anyone can vary for thier purposes using mmencode.

http://home.clara.net/dwotton/unix/mail_files.txt

In my case I added a few things at the header and called mmencode in a script to send multi files. Hope that helps someone get to the solution quicker next time.