<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1528" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=930530122-30032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The other suggestion, to use the Perl MIME packages, would probably be better in the </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=930530122-30032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>long run. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=930530122-30032006></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=930530122-30032006></SPAN><SPAN class=930530122-30032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I'm not sure, but I think the use of a uuencoded file as a MIME hunk, is kind of a</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=930530122-30032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>quasi hack. But it has worked for me almost everywhere I've tried it. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=930530122-30032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=930530122-30032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I think I did have problems getting GroupWise to accept it though, maybe other</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=930530122-30032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>email clients would also object.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=930530122-30032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=930530122-30032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Chris</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=930530122-30032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Bill Watson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:19 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Red Hat Network Users List'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [rhn-users] What is the simplest way to use command line(mailorsendmail) with an attachment?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=531074523-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4>I tried:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=531074523-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4>uuencode pdf/300.pdf page300.pdf|mailx -s "This is the subject for page 300" <A href="mailto:bill@magicdigits.com">bill@magicdigits.com</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=531074523-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=531074523-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4>and life is good! A couple of hiccups in that the 2nd parameter on uuencode (name of file) will add .dat if you do not specify the extension. WinXP doesn't deal with that so well. Also having the file to attach actually exist (where you say it does) helps.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=531074523-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=531074523-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4>Thanks for your help, this is the good stuff that manuals often forget to cover!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=531074523-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4>Bill Watson</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=531074523-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4><A href="mailto:bill@magicdigits.com">bill@magicdigits.com</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Howard, Chris<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:22 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Red Hat Network Users List<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [rhn-users] What is the simplest way to use command line (mailorsendmail) with an attachment?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=558192123-29032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>One way to do it:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=558192123-29032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=558192123-29032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>uuencode filename.txt filename.txt | mailx -s"here is that file" <A href="mailto:otherguy@mail.address">otherguy@mail.address</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=558192123-29032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=558192123-29032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=558192123-29032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Most email clients will show filename.txt as an attachment.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=558192123-29032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=558192123-29032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Chris</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=558192123-29032006></SPAN> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Bill Watson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:07 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Red Hat Network Users List'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [rhn-users] What is the simplest way to use command line (mail orsendmail) with an attachment?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984525922-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4>I have read the sendmail documents that I could find and can only conclude that I am clueless or that attachments on emails are beyond diffilcult.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984525922-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984525922-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4>Is there a tool laying around that can properly package an email attachment onto an email and send it via a command line protocol?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984525922-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984525922-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4>Thanks in advance!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984525922-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4>Bill Watson</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984525922-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4><A href="mailto:bill@magicdigits.com">bill@magicdigits.com</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=984525922-29032006><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>