Hi,
Can someone pls tell me how do i mail the contents of my dead.letter to my mail id. The problem is that the content is a multi-part message in MIME format. How do i get the original message mailed to me.
i used uuencode, but that does not work, says "uuencode not found"
Any help is greately appriciated..
is it not already encoded?
have you tried sending as is?
mailx -s dead.letter you@host < dead.letter
What Operating System and version do you have?
Where physically is the mailbox for "my mail id"? Is it on the server where you see "dead.letter" or somewhere else?
Can your normal mail reading software read the mailbox on the unix server directly and process the attachments? If so it is just a case of copying "dead.letter" to a mailbox which your mail reader can see.
If not, the issue is how to forward the message from a unix mailbox to the final destination mailbox. I've not been successful in reading attachments after manually forwarding a mail with the "mailx" "~F" command. Others may know better techniques.
cat /usr/spool/mail/dead.letter >> /usr/spool/mail/raghu
Or maybe 'var' instead of 'usr'
I am trying to forward the mail in the dead.letter to my outlook mailbox.
I am pretty sure the mail is encoded, says its in multi-part mime format.
i tried to send the mail as is to my mailbox in outlook, it does come, but in the same format that it is in already.
What about "cat dead.letter | sendmail addess@example.com" ? I'm just making a wild guess so please, those of you who know better, feel free to throw ripe fruit at my head.
Sorry to throw a pile of ripe lemons into the debate.
The format of unix delivered mail in a unix mailbox is suitable for reading by a unix-compatible mail reader. Forwarding the raw file to a Microsoft email reader does not seem to work (I've tried it) and extracting the encoded attachment and trying to decode it with "uudecode" also does not seem to work (I've tried it).
I believe that an email which ends up in "dead.letter" originates from that computer but has been sent to an incorrect local email address (or a mistyped external email address which has been interpreted as a local email address). Perhaps the O/P can re-send the email?
As the O/P is keeping quiet about the O/S environment we really cannot explore this further.
I was under the impression (and people may put me right on this), that MIME encoding is base64 and is therefore different than uuencoding. There are numerous open source MIME decoding programs that could be downloaded to help you decode your mail article (If you have Linux installed, you probably already have one)