Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:10:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> To: Jay Moore <jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> Cc: Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> Subject: Re: How to send attached files on sendmail with mail tool? Message-ID: <20040721090847.F85700@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <200407202324.30211.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> References: <200407162036.i6GKaNt11099@www.plutao.lusodigital.net> <1090197528.91088.68.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> <200407202324.30211.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com>
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> > > > cat file | uuencode tgt_filname | mail -s "subject" test@example.com uuencode <tgt_filname | mail -s "subject" test@example.com instead of cat. less one unneeded piping. > > > > subject can be derived from shell script variables if necessary. > > Do you have to do a uudecode on the receiving end to recover the file? > > I tried this - sending a pdf file from this FreeBSD system to a Windoze user > that gets mail via POP - it didn't work. The filename came through, and it > was listed as an attachment, but there was nothing useful in the file. > i think windoze just can't decode uuencoded attachments right. it only supports base64 right. metamail will be useful, possibly /usr/local/bin/encode-base64 was installed by package p5-MIME-Base64-2.21
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