What's wrong with my code?

[volcano]

Hello, I have a trouble in sending email attachment. Your advice is very much appreciated!

My problem is that I have written a shell script to send an PDF to a client. However when I executed the script, he could receive the PDF but couldn't open it. It seemed the PDF was damaged. Therefore I would like to post my script here and see if you professionals can give me any advice~

Thanks
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{
echo 'To: client@test.com'
echo 'From: me@test.com'
echo 'Subject: test attachment'
echo 'MIME-Version: 1.0'
echo 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="xxxxyyyyzzzz"'
echo ''
echo '--xxxxyyyyzzzz'
echo 'Content-Type: text/plain'
echo ''
echo 'There should be an attachment of pdf'
echo ''
echo '--xxxxyyyyzzzz'
echo 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="test.pdf"'
echo 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64'
echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.pdf"'
echo ''
cat $PWD/test.pdf
echo ''
echo '--xxxxyyyyzzzz--'
echo ''
echo '.'
} > test.txt
/usr/lib/sendmail -t -n < test.txt

 

[Chapter11]

Correct me if I'm print, but PDF is a binary format. Your email is indicating that it's a base64 encoding, but you're not converting the file to base64, you're just spewing it straight into the mail.

A quick check of Bull and sourceforge didn't turn up anything that might be useful.

 

[mrregan]

I think you need to uuencode the pdf file into another file then cat that to the email.

 

[volcano]

Thanks so much for all of your advice..finally I can solve the problem. The solution is to use &quot;MIMENCODE&quot; command (or other similar encoding tools) to encode the PDF instead of using &quot;CAT&quot; command...once this line is changed, I can send and receive the PDF successfully..

Thanks again for your help!