ot: mail flag for attachment in unix

[Dennis Malen]

Yes,  that is the practical problem on why perhaps it should not be used and 
I should go to LM.

Dennis Malen
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: ot: mail flag for attachment in unix


> Dennis Malen wrote:
>> Ken,
>>
>> I missed trying Bill's suggestion and the following did work:
>>
>> (uuencode emccx.xls emccx.xls ; cat tryftp) | mail -s "test4" 
>> dmalen at malen.com
>>
>> It attached emccx.xls and placed the contents of tryftp in the body.
>
> Actually, it "attached" nothing.  Rather, it made a simple plain-text 
> e-mail whose body consisted of a uuencoded file plus some text.
>
> It may be that the e-mail client used to read this recognized the in-line 
> uuencoded file and pretended it was an attachment, but that's just the 
> behavior of the particular client that was being used.  Other clients may 
> show "garbage" as the body of the message, and others may recognize the 
> uuencoded in-line content, and ignore everything else.
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody