Getting mail with no Attachment

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi All,

my requirement send a mail with attachment a abc.txt file.
below is the shell script.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
set -x
#DIR=/appldata/download/mail
MAILTO="krupa.behera@kk.com"
SUBJECT="Report"
BODY="Hi All,"
ATTACH=/projects/psoft/hrdw/pushreports/crons/temp_out
#ATTACH1="$DIR/ahmed1.csv"
(
 echo "To: $MAILTO"
  echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
echo 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-bon"'
 echo
echo '---BON'
 echo "Content-Type: text/plain"
echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
 cat $BODY
echo '---BON'
 echo 'Content-Type: application; name="'$(basename $ATTACH)'"'
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64"
 echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'$(basename $ATTACH)'"'
 uuencode  $ATTACH $(basename $ATTACH)
 echo '---BON--'
  ) | /usr/lib/sendmail  $MAILTO -t -i

i am getting mail body every thing is my exception but not mail Attachment.

Please some one correct this code or give some suggestion how to do it.

Thanks,
Krupa

2

Try this:-

#!/usr/bin/ksh
set -x
#DIR=/appldata/download/mail
MAILTO="krupa.behera@kk.com"
SUBJECT="Report"
BODY="Hi All,"
ATTACH=/projects/psoft/hrdw/pushreports/crons/temp_out

(
echo "To: $MAILTO"
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"
echo 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-bon"'
echo "---bon"
echo "Content-Type: text/plain"
echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
echo '---bon'
echo "$BODY"
echo '---bon'
echo 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="'$(basename $ATTACH)'"'
echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'$(basename $ATTACH)'"'
echo '---bon'
cat ${ATTACH}
echo '---bon'
) | /usr/lib/sendmail $MAILTO -t -i
3

Thanks alot, it is working fine but i need some information like i am getting two files with mail one is txt with blank file and another is temp_out.

dout---
what is the meaning of
1.echo 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-bon"'
2.echo "Content-Type: text/plain"
echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
3.echo 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="'$(basename $ATTACH)'"'
echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'$(basename $ATTACH)'"'

i am requesting please explain above lines .

i will be thank full to you.

Thanks,
Krupa

4

For fixing the issue with blank attachment. Please perform the following modification:-

/usr/lib/sendmail $MAILTO -t -i

to

/usr/lib/sendmail -t

You can refer to RFC2045 for more information on MIME.

5

No,still i am getting two files like temp_out.txt with data (it excepted) and another ATT00001.txt with zero byte file (it is not excepted).

i have to run this shell script by weekly(meaning alternative weekly,ex- 2nd week of each month)
how to write a program to check 2nd week of a month.
it is very useful script will be for me.

Thanks,
Krupa

6

I tested the script with the modification that I suggested and it generated an email without a second attachment (blank). The email address is not required as an argument for sendmail because we already mentioned it in the mail header:- echo "To: $MAILTO".

For scheduling the script you can use cron.