uuencode and compress

[Ambatim]

I am compressing a file using compress command and sending the compressed file as an attachment using mailx

compress file1
uuencode file1.Z file1.Z > mailfile
mailx -N -s "Some Subject" some@some.com < mailfile

This works fine when the size of the file1 is small. But it fails if the size of file1 is more than 20 MB.

Is there any restriction on uuencode or mailx, with regard to size ?
Is there any other way, to achieve this?

UNIX: IBM AIX Version 5
Mail Client: Lotus Notes 6.5



Thanks in advance
Mallik

 

[RodKnowlton]

In what way does it fail?

If it's being bounced by some.com, maybe they have a 20 MB limit on incoming mail size.

If not, using the perl Mail::Sender module to send the file as an attachment would be one solution.


Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L
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