Kindly advice how to attach a file in sendmail command.

thanx in advance

Rgds
Sanjay

Try to search for uuencode on BaanBoard Search. You will get some very good threads that talk about this.


- Bader

Hi Bader

Thanls for tips. I tried following script :

uuencode <sourcefile> <destfile> | mailx -s "Mesg subject" -r <sender mail id> <receipient mail id>

Above statement works fine, But the problem is when i recd mail there is no sender same specified. I tested out this on Solaris with Postmaster Mail server and at cleint end I am using outlook express.

Pls help me out.

rgds
Sanjay:confused:

Hi Sanjay,

You may want to download a utility called mmencode or mimencode for Solaris.

I would do a search on google for "mimencode Solaris"

mimencoding makes mime encoding. It is better than uuencoding, the default for Unix.

- Bader

Hi

I think problem in mailx command becoz uuencode is working fine. I test only mailx command from $ prompt which following sytan :

$ mailx -s "test" -r sanjay@xyz.com sanjay@xyz.com

with above i recd. the mail with test subject but again sender unspecified.

pls tell me alternate option of mailx.

rgds
Sanjay

If mailx is not working properly, then you need to contact Sun and get patch.

Other options are:

mail - much more simple than mailx
sendmail - You can "program" the header using sendmail switches.

- Bader

I use program MUTT ( freeware for multiple OS ) .

where -a -----> file attach
-s -----> subject

Bye

Max

What I often do is the following:
use a telnet session on port 25 (smtp)
I create a file (named here XXX) such as:
----start of file XXX-------
HELO username
MAIL FROM: username@domainname
RCPT TO: destinationname@destinationdomain
RCPT TO: anotherdestinationname@anotherdomain
DATA
From: This_will_be_displayed_as_sender
To: This_will_be_displayed_as_receiver
Subject: This_will_be_displayed_as_subject
TExt
Text
Text
Text
.
BYE
-----end of file XXX-----
If I prompt now:
cat XXX | ip_of_mailhost 25
The email gets sent.
So from within a Baan application, I simple create a file like the above and execute the command like the above via shell().
Works perfectly here.
To test it, open a telnet session on port 25 of your mailhost and issue the smtp-commands by hand.

HTH

Norbert

Hi Mr Bader

Problem resolve after loading necessary patches. now in mailx -r is working perfectly.

There is one more query when i try this in BaaN script with shell() it also works perfectly, but when i try to sent mails to multiple receipent either we have to mentioned all mail id's or initiate script again and again. Pls suggest me how can i pass the value of a variable (i.e. mail id) in below script.

x=<email id's>

uuencode /x/x /x/x.doc | mailx -s "test" -r sanjay@xyz.com x

thanx in advance

regds
Sanjay

Just seperate the E mail ID's in variable x with ,

ie. x=user1@intier.com,user2@intier.com,user3@intier.com

Hope this helps
Neal Matthews
Intier Automotive - IT Support Analyst