Email with .dat file as attachment

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi, I am trying to email a .dat file as an attachment from unix MS-outlook.

I tried uuencode but it is not attaching the file, rather it is placing some junk data in the body of mail. Below is my code

(cat Message.txt; uuencode  Attach_File.DAT Attch_File.DAT) | mailx -s "SUBJECT" glaveti@frk.com

Can anyone please help?

Thanks

2

this command is correct, what mail client did you use?

Can you try to send to a gmail?

3

Yes i tried sending to gmail,but im facing the same problem

4

You have to uudecode the junk in the body of the mail.

5

the below code is working when iam sending it to gmail but it is not working for microsoft outlook.

(uuencode /gdw/gdw_p4/dev/gid/ff_header.txt ff_header.txt | mailx  -s "hi" xxx@gmail.com)
6

Try converting the txt file to dos format, via unix2dos or similar, before using uuencode.

7

Hi,

I tried converting the file using unix2dos and sent the converted file, but still I am getting the file data as corrupted data in the body of the mail and the attachment is coming. This problem is only occurring for MS_Outlook.

Thanks

8

Try to use a .mailrc file with this as content:

set crt=21
set encoding=8bit
set charset=iso-8859-1
9

Why don't you attach the .dat file with the -a option?

10

not all mailx versions support '-a' - must be GNUism.

11

But mailx does, according to this forum's man pages.

12

Try changing the 'Man Page Set:' to POSIX or AiX...

13

Sorry - you're right!