ot: mail flag for attachment in unix

[Dennis Malen]

Thanks Ken,

That may be a problem once clients start to receive the attachments and some 
may be able to open and some may not.

I would then have to go to a product like LM.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: ot: mail flag for attachment in unix


> 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.)
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody