need help with my sendmail script

Shell Programming and Scripting
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hi all,

i'm trying to use sendmail to send a message in html format with attachments but having some issues with the attachments. below is my code.

ATTACH1="/export/home/adshocker/attach.prog"
ATTACH_NAME1=${ATTACH1##*/}
echo "ATTACH_NAME1=$ATTACH_NAME1"
ATTACH2="/export/home/adshocker/attach.sh"
ATTACH_NAME2=${ATTACH2##*/}
echo "ATTACH_NAME2=$ATTACH_NAME2"
(
 echo "To: $MAILTO"
 echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"
 echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
 echo 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-q1w2e3r4t5"'
 echo
 echo '---q1w2e3r4t5'
 echo "Content-Type: text/html"
 echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
 cat $BODY
 echo '---q1w2e3r4t5'
 echo 'Content-Type: application; name="'${ATTACH_NAME1}'"'
 echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64"
 echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'${ATTACH_NAME1}'"'
 uuencode $ATTACH1 $ATTACH1
 echo 'Content-Type: application; name="'${ATTACH_NAME2}'"'
 echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64"
 echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'${ATTACH_NAME2}'"'
 uuencode $ATTACH2 $ATTACH2
 echo '---q1w2e3r4t5--'
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail $MAILTO

when i get the message, i only get the first attachment and when i open it, it's sort of encrypted. can anyone help me with this.

i'm using solaris.

thanks.

2

You need an empty line to end the MIME header. Also, man uuencode (linux) is not quite the same as man base64 (linux). My suggested changes are in red, below:

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3

hi,

thank you for your help. i've manage to get my code working now with some minor changes. unfortunately we don't have base64 so i went with uuencode instead. below is my final and working code:

SUBJECT="TEST"
BODY="/export/home/adshocker/body.htm"
ATTACH1="/export/home/adshocker/attach.prog"
ATTACH_NAME1=${ATTACH1##*/}
echo "ATTACH_NAME1=$ATTACH_NAME1"
ATTACH2="/export/home/adshocker/attach.sh"
ATTACH_NAME2=${ATTACH2##*/}
echo "ATTACH_NAME2=$ATTACH_NAME2"
(
 echo "To: $MAILTO"
 echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"
 echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
 echo 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-q1w2e3r4t5"'
 echo
 echo '---q1w2e3r4t5'
 echo "Content-Type: text/html"
 echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
 echo
 cat $BODY
 echo
 echo '---q1w2e3r4t5'
 echo 'Content-Type: application; name="'${ATTACH_NAME1}'"'
 echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: uuencode"
 echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'${ATTACH_NAME1}'"'
 echo
 uuencode $ATTACH1 $ATTACH1
 echo
 echo '---q1w2e3r4t5'
 echo 'Content-Type: application; name="'${ATTACH_NAME2}'"'
 echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: uuencode"
 echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'${ATTACH_NAME2}'"'
 echo
 uuencode $ATTACH2 $ATTACH2
 echo
 echo '---q1w2e3r4t5--'
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail $MAILTO