Comments on: Attach files to email via command line

By: aaron

aaron — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:59:36 +0000

ummm. i hate to burst your bubble but..

nobody in this day/age should be using uuencode for anything.

uuencoded attachments will be destroyed going through a large majority of email systems, especially when the mta involves ASCIIEBCDIC gateways, these will sever the 8th bit control codes.

Theres a good explanation of the problems here:

http://www.imc.org/ietf-822/old-archive1/msg00290.html

And seriously. just use mimencode with base64, its understood by nearly every mail client and won’t get clipped by EBCDIC conversion.

By: aaron

aaron — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:59:00 +0000

ummm. i hate to burst your bubble but..

nobody in this day/age should be using uuencode for anything.

uuencoded attachments will be destroyed going through a large majority of email systems, especially when the mta involves ASCIIEBCDIC gateways, these will sever the 8th bit control codes.

Theres a good explanation of the problems here:

http://www.imc.org/ietf-822/old-archive1/msg00290.html

And seriously. just use mimencode with base64, its understood by nearly every mail client and won’t get clipped by EBCDIC conversion.

By: hyu

hyu — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:15:22 +0000

uuencode f1 f1 > f1.uu
uuencode f2 f2 > f2.uu
echo “mail body” > mail.body
cat mail.body f1.uu f2.uu | mail -s “test e-mail” you.e-mail@address.com

By: hyu

hyu — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:15:00 +0000

uuencode f1 f1 > f1.uu
uuencode f2 f2 > f2.uu
echo “mail body” > mail.body
cat mail.body f1.uu f2.uu | mail -s “test e-mail” you.e-mail@address.com

By: gare

gare — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:16:08 +0000

How do you attach 2 files ?

:0)
Thanks for posting this solution!.

By: gare

gare — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:16:00 +0000

How do you attach 2 files ?

:0)
Thanks for posting this solution!.