ot: mail flag for attachment in unix

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

   I've used a Mac's mail client, Outlook, basically any free web mail
(yahoo, etc)
   and never had a problem with uuencode "attaching" whatever file I have
sent.

   Granted I haven't sent anything crazy - I've sent txt, csv, dbf, xls,
doc, jpg, wmv
   All have never had an issue with anything I've used....
   But, I guess YMMV depending on your setup....uuencode has always worked
   well for me for years and it's easy to script with on Unix.

   I'm sure as others have pointed out, there are probably limitations of
using
   uuencode depending on your mail client, I just haven't ever encountered
any.

   Good luck

   Scott

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com> wrote:

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> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> >>Dennis Malen wrote:
> >>> Thanks for the responses. AIX did not have mutt. The following did work
> >>> as suggested by Scott:
> >>>
> >>> uuencode test.txt test.txt|mail -s "Attach a file" email at email.com
> >>>
> >>> Fairlight suggested that uuencode may be a problem. Is uuencode
> unstable
> >>> and something I should not rely on? And if so, is there anything else I
> >>> should use.
> >>>
> >>> In the meantime I will use uuencode.
> >>
> >>I didn't see anything in Fairlight's e-mail that said uuencode may be a
> >>"problem".  Rather, he pointed out that the method above is _not_
> creating
> >>an attachment, but rather "inline embedding", and that not all e-mail
> >>clients nowadays will recognize embedded uuencoded text.  (Instead,
> you'll
> >>simply see a bunch of "garbage" in the message body.)
> >
> > As I remember, and it's been a long time since I looked at this,
> > uuencode may have issues encoding/decoding some things.  Google
> > will probably find the answers to this.
> >
> > It's also been a long time since I did any serious work on AIX
> > and had access to any AIX systems to see what's available.  If it
> > has perl or python, then there are fairly easy ways to create
> > scripts to do what you want.  I could put something together in
> > python pretty quickly.  Perl would take a bit longer as I haven't
> > done much perl in about 4 years after using it for most of my
> > development since 1989 or so.  Mark/Fairlite is much more current
> > in perl than I these days.
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