Mailx attachment using uuencode issue on Outlook2013

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello all

I am on RHEL 6.4. I have been using my bash script which mails one .csv file after zipping (myfile.csv.zip)to my Lotus Notes ID. I use

uuencode

with

mailx

to do this. Here is my command -

uuencode myfile.csv.zip myfile.csv.zip | mailx -s "Subject" mailid

. This all works very cool. Now my company is migrated to Outlook2013 from Lotus Notes. Now when the same mail is coming to outlook i do not get any attachment but in body of mail i get all encoded words beginning with

begin 640 path of the .csv file

and all junk chars. Why this is so?

After that I tried mailx with option -a to add attachment(myfile.csv.zip) and this seems coming as attachment in my outlook but when I open zip file it shows me the file with complete dir path which I do not want my users to see.

Could some one please help m if I am still use

uuencode

if not can i use get rid of absolute path coming along with the file in mail.

Thanks
Krsnadasa

2

Its more how you used your zip tool you should look to find why you have PATH included... and htta you dont mention...

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If you can't get uuencode to work you can try Perl.

MIME::Lite

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Thanks Vbe

Evenif I give relative path means I run the mailx dir where zip file is present still I get full dir path in zip file name in outlook attachment. What do you mean by htta. This was working fine with Lotus notes but not in outlook.

Hi gandolf989

I will use perl as my last option. I am still looking for something related to Bash. Is MIME is available in bash.

Thanks

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Hi Vbe

You were right. That is now resolved. I need to zip the file from current dir then this does not show me the full path.

Thanks

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