ot: mail flag for attachment in unix

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Wed Sep 30 10:00:18 PDT 2009


Is it just me, or did scooter6 at gmail.com say:
>    Not sure if AIX has uuencode, but for SCO you would do this:
> 
>    uuencode filename filename|mail -s "Attach a file" email at email.com
> 
>    You must list the filename twice in a row, including file extenstion
>    This will attach a file
> 
>    i.e.  uuencode test.txt test.txt|mail -s "Attach a file" email at email.com

That isn't an attachment, that's inline embedding.  Big difference in how
mail clients potentially treat that.

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