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Name: yy1
Date: July 16, 2006 at 23:48:22 Pacific
OS: HP-UX
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Product: -
Comment:

Can anyone provide the command how to send a text file as a attachment with a proper subject using mailx or sendmail command in UNIX.

Note: I am using HP-UX OS. The file send should be the attachment, not in the message body. In addition, I need to put in the mail subject as well.



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Name: ghostdog
Date: July 17, 2006 at 05:25:16 Pacific
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if your system has uuencode, you can use that to send attachment.

uuencode yourfile yourfile | mailx .....

check the man page of mailx for subject options..


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Response Number 2
Name: Venu
Date: July 18, 2006 at 21:42:32 Pacific
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Hi,

uuencode attachment attachment | mailx -m -s "Subject of the Mail" you@you.com

Hope this helps

Regards


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