Sending Attachment with mailx

[rcee]

Hi all ,

Can some one help me with the command to sent attachment using mailx .

Is it possible and if it is , is there any limitation of the size ?

Thanks
RC

[Hajo Ehlers]

rcee wrote:
> Hi all ,
>
> Can some one help me with the command to sent attachment using mailx .

I assume you mean binary attachments

man uuencode

>
> Is it possible and if it is , is there any limitation of the size ?

After uuencoding you can splitt the file into a size which is supported
by all processes and resources meaning from a technical/theoretical
point of view the file size is almost unlimited.

But who likes to get a 4,5 GB email where its mail directory is on a
2GB limited FS

hth
Hajo

[rcee]

Thanks for the reply ,

Ya definetly not in GB's but in MB's. So if the restriction is only for
GB's then it's ok .

So what about ascii files.!

[Hajo Ehlers]

rcee wrote:
> Thanks for the reply ,

...

> So what about ascii files.!

Depends what you mean which ascii file.
Only printable ASCII characters ? ( which can be send by smtp without
problems )
The full ascii code set ? ( Even a STRG-V,STRG-M ( ^M) is for mail

So do not care about the file type meaning use uuencode allways. This
way you do not have to care about special characters like ^M (
ctrl-v,ctrl-m ) and the processing atthe receiver side canbe done
automaticly
Thus we go the Unix way and see everything as a data stream .

Sure for short messages i would not use uudecode but i think you are
talking about large files.
hth
Hajo

[sol gongola]

If your need an example of sending with an attachment, look at
John Roebucks jail program at http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=1843
It is a shell script that handles binary attachments and is
easy to understand and customize/

sol

[Mark Taylor]

I have played with this quite a bit and there are many many ways to do
so .. one resource I found good was
http://www.panix.com/~kylet/unix-att.html .. my personal favorite is
"mutt -a" tho I have also used uuencode and mail where "mutt" was not
installed ala ..

ATTATCH="file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt"
SUPPORTMAILTO="me@my_domain.com"
MAILTO="you@your_domain.com"
MSG="This is an attahcment test!!!"

fn_sendmail()
{
# Build sendmail header.
echo "From: $SUPPORTMAILTO"
echo "To: $MAILTO"
echo "Subject: ${MSG}"
echo "X-MSMail-Priority: High"
echo "importance: 1"
echo "Mime-Version: 1.0"
echo "Content-Type: text/plain"
echo
echo
echo "Hi, Please find attached ${ATTACH}"
echo
echo

# uuencode the attachments.
for k in ${ATTACH}
do
uuencode $k $k
done

}

fn_sendmail | sendmail -t -oi

HTH
Mark Taylor