Formatting a mail

Howard Wilkinson howard at cohtech.com
Fri Oct 12 10:36:16 UTC 2007


Paul Ward wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please can someone show me the easy way of fixing this format problem,
> I am sure it must be a simple command.
>
> I am mailing myself a file from postfix.
> the file is created by doing a cat of around 10 files into my tmpfile
> when viewed by less it looks like this
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH04 today is 24
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH05 today is 7
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH06 today is 0
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH07 today is 0
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH09 today is 0
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH10 today is 0
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH11 today is 0
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH12 today is 0
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH13 today is 0
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH14 today is 0
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-PRT02 today is 12
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-PRT03 today is 17
>
> However when I mail myself it mail -s "TEST" pnward at googlemail.com <
> /tmp/tmpfile
>
> The mails looks like below when opened in outlook :(
>
> Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH04 today is 24 Number of pages
> printed for RIAS-INS-HH05 today is 7 Number of pages printed for
> RIAS-INS-HH06 today is 0 Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH07
> today is 0 Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH09 today is 0 Number
> of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH10 today is 0 Number of pages printed
> for RIAS-INS-HH11 today is 0 Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH12
> today is 0 Number of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH13 today is 0 Number
> of pages printed for RIAS-INS-HH14 today is 0 Number of pages printed
> for RIAS-INS-PRT02 today is 12 Number of pages printed for
> RIAS-INS-PRT03 today is 17
>
> Before anyone says get a better client this is for work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
>
>   
Run unix2dos over the file before giving to the mail client.

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