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Sending multiple attachments using mailx or sendmail [message #97527]

Tue, 09 July 2002 11:00

Dinesh
Messages: 31
Registered: October 2001

Member

Hi ,

Is there anyway i can send multiple attachments with an email using either mailx or sendmail. e.g I would want to send an email with all sql files in a directory (*.sql) attached to it.

Any help is appreciated

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Re: Sending multiple attachments using mailx or sendmail [message #97528 is a reply to message #97527]

Tue, 09 July 2002 12:32

Grant
Messages: 578
Registered: January 2002

Senior Member

Tar them into one file. WINZIP can handle tar files if they are headed for a windows machine. Else the unix machine can handle it.

tar -cvf sql.tar *.sql
compress sql.tar
mailx -s "SQL Scripts" mailrecipient < sql.tar.Z

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Re: Sending multiple attachments using mailx or sendmail [message #97612 is a reply to message #97527]

Thu, 12 September 2002 01:43

Shaun
Messages: 5
Registered: July 2002

Junior Member

Rolling the files up with 'tar' and compressing
with 'compress' or 'gzip' works OK.
Another solution is to 'uuencode' each file within a
sub-shell and pipe the whole lot into mailx. eg:

(uuencode file_1 file_1.txt; uuencode file_2 file_2.txt) | mailx -s "My SQL files" me@somewhere

Works for me.
Good luck.
Shaun.

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Re: Sending multiple attachments using mailx or sendmail [message #97633 is a reply to message #97612]

Fri, 27 September 2002 06:34

Leon
Messages: 1
Registered: September 2002

Junior Member

Hi Shaun

This is what I used to use as well. Going from a Linux
server to a M$ Exchange Server (Relay) and finaly to a Win XP client... Well it used to work Great....
Now All I get is the uuencoded stuff on the page as text...

Have you seen this before?

Thanx

Leon

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