Here's how to send a file as the body of an email (works best with ASCII files :D):

CODE

bash-2.05$ mailx -s "Email Test" username@domain.com < /tmp/file.txt

Here's how to send a file as an attachment to an email on the cmdline:

CODE

bash-2.05$ export UUE=/tmp/file.txt bash-2.05$ uuencode ${UUE} < ${UUE} | mailx -s "${UUE}" username@domain.com

:D

Hallo,

I have used your command for sending attachments. My problem is, that this command doesn´t work if the size of the file is 21 MB or more.
Is there anything I could do that this file is also be send?

Thanks for helping!
arwen_elanor

21MB doesn't seem to be a power of 2, and therefore i think it's something wrong with your configuration, not the command itself.

what errors do you receive?

Hallo,

it seems that these emails are sent about another server and there the configuration doesn´t allows attachments greater 20 MB.
I think I ´ve to compress the files.
But thanks a lot!

Nice Evening,
arwen_elanor

Hi,

now there is another problem. I´ve to test my script on another server and I'm getting the following error message:

uuencode: ISO8859-15 to 646 conversion: Invalid argument

But I've nothing changed except the directory. What is wrong?

Note the comment "works best with ascii files" in the original post. There was sort of a joke. The real statement is "will only work with ascii files". And ascii means "american standard code for information interchange". We Americans do not have diacritical marks. (Not too many of us even know what a diacritical mark is. :wacko: ) The uuencode protocol can only handle a limited character set as input. Once you introduce stuff like the German umlaut, you have moved beyond what uuencode can do. So it's not the directory, it's the input data.

Is there any other possibility to send the file as attachment? Or another decode-function?

you can send the file as an attachment using the first post again... see the bit called "Here's how to send a file as an attachment to an email on the cmdline"...

But that requires uuencode which is not working for him. He could use the first part of the post and send it as a body though.

oh yeah... oops, lol