export then email doesn't send whole file

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

scooter6 at gmail.com propounded (on Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:02:53PM -0400):
| I have an export where our marketing people can set select whatever
| criteria they want
| It then asks them for the name of the file to output to csv....and their
| name to email it
| 
| it runs    /fp/rreport client -f exportCLI -u -x
| 
| and runs the following process:
| 
| top:aa=""
| :input aa(20,*) "What do you want to name the file? (i.e. flclients.csv
| )"
| :ba=""
| :input ba(5,*) "Who are you? (i.e. Kalan, Jim)":
| :aa="" or ba=""
| :goto top:
| ::ab(44,*)="/appl/fpmerge/cliexport/"{aa:
| ::export ascii cli=(ab) r=\n f=, o=" c=":
| ::cli(1)=1;cli(2)=2;cli(3)=3;cli(4)=4;cli(5)=5;cli(6)=6;cli(7)=7;cli(8)=8:
| ::cli(9)=17-"1";cli(10)=67;cli(11)=75;cli(12)=77;:
| ::ac(4,.0)=@td-67:
| ::cli(13)=ac:
| ::x(10,.0,g)=x+"1":
| ::end:
| @done::beep;msgbox "A total of"<x<"Records were selected...Press Enter":
| ::system "/appl/fpmerge/cliexport/send_file.scr"<aa<ba:
| 
| So as you can see, using the parameters the user enters, it calls the
| send_file script which basically is just using mutt to send the file..
| The problem is, once the csv files arrives in the users Inbox, it rarely
| has all the records in it (every now and then it does, but typically gets
| cut off somewhere)
| However, if I go look in the directory where the file gets created, all of
| the records are there
| If I send the file from the command line using mutt just like my script
| does, then the file will arrive fully intact with all the records?
| 
| I even put a sleep command  (sleep 10) in the beginning of my script - just
| in case the file hadn't been written out completely, but that didn't change
| anything....
| 
| What would cause this behaviour?  It's as if the email trigger gets called
| prior to the entire file being 'written to disk' or something?
| 
| Any insight would be appreciated
| 

What version of mutt are you using, and what mutt command?

-- 
JP