zip + attach sending to mail from solaris box.

Sha_unix · 09-22-2011, 06:02 AM

Hi,i am not finding any command to mail myself with attached csv/txt file. i used below commands but got unwrapped/grambled text as a mail.

$ (uuencode reports.csv reportscsv) | mailx -s "My Report" user@yourcorp.com

( if possible i want to zip and send 3 files of same size (35k).

Can anybody help.

tronayne · 09-22-2011, 08:49 AM

If you make a little shell program

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
cat ${1} | uuencode "${1}" | mailx -[b|c] you@where.what -s ${1} whoever@where.what

Call it, say, mailit.sh and make mailit then

Code:

mailit file

"file" can be zipped, gzipped, plain text, PostScript, PDF, whatever (so you can send anything as an attachment).

Or, you can

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
zip ${1}.zip ${1}
cat ${1}.zip | uuencode "${1}.zip" | mailx -[b|c] you@where.what -s ${1}.zip whoever@where.what
rm ${1}.zip

The -b argument is "blind copy" (your address does not appear in the CC list) or -c your address does appear in the CC list.

You can go further and loop through a list of file if you want to do that.

Hope this helps some.

Sha_unix · 09-22-2011, 09:05 AM

Thank you Tronayne,

i used your first code seems working, but i got attachment properly but file is not intact, the lines are all grambled. and csv file is totally messed up. Do we have any option for that...

tronayne · 09-22-2011, 12:56 PM

Well, I dunno -- I just sent the file mailit.sh to myself at both gamil.com and my local machine (note that mailx does not like dealing with zipped files and the attachment will be unreadable -- with a mail app, like Thunderbird, the attachment can be saved and unzipped). Note that zipping means that the attachment will be mailto.sh.zip, not just mailto.sh.

Hope this helps some.

Sha_unix · 09-26-2011, 04:59 AM

Can anybody help on this.. This seems to be not working (as i get attachment grambled when i open it)

tronayne · 09-26-2011, 07:31 AM

OK, take a look at the man page for mailx -- is there a -a option? If so, that's how to do an attachment. The "old" mailx on Solaris didn't support attachments (no -a) and the uuencode I gave would work with that but not, apparently, with a mailx that does have the -a option. Sigh.

So, if you do have a newer mailx that has the -a, you do it like this

Code:

#       we need to zip the file
#       get the filename without any path information
FILE=`basename ${1}.zip`
#       zip it
#       (otherwise use gzip -c ${1} > ${FILE}.gz)
zip ${FILE} ${1}
#       compose a little message
echo "Attached is ${FILE}." > /tmp/message
mailx -a ${FILE} -c who@where -s "Here is ${FILE}" who@where < /tmp/message
rm ${FILE} /tmp/message

And that works.

Hope this helps some.

Sha_unix · 09-26-2011, 07:42 AM

I have older version of SUN.

code:
SunOS noszprrsnp01 5.10 Generic_144488-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-T12

tronayne · 09-26-2011, 12:50 PM

Well, that ought to work -- but, seems like I remember (it's been a while) that zip wasn't all that hot on Solaris... do you have gzip available (and, of course, does whoever you're sending to?).

I fiddled with it some some and got it to actually work like it would on Solaris with

Code:

#       we need to zip the file
#       get the filename without any path information
FILE=`basename ${1}`
#       zip it
#       (otheriwise us gzip -c ${1} > ${FILE}.gz)
zip ${FILE}.zip ${1}
#       compose a little message
echo "Attached is ${FILE}.zip." > /tmp/message
cat ${FILE}.zip | uuencode ${FILE}.zip | mailx -s "Here is ${FILE}.zip" -c who@where sombody@somwhere < /tmp/message
rm ${FILE}.zip /tmp/message

Realize that you will not be able to deal with the attachment in mailx -- gotta use Thunderbird or some other web-based mail client.

I've mailed three different CSV files to myself, got 'em in Thunderbird, upzipped them and got back what I expected.

This is about the only thing I can think of to do other than, maybe, use Thunderbird as your mailer and attach pre-zipped (or gzipped) files using it from your Solaris box. Thunderbird does (or at least is used to) build on Solaris and that might be an answer (might even be a Solaris package for it).

Hope this helps some.

jlliagre · 09-26-2011, 03:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tronayne

Thunderbird does (or at least is used to) build on Solaris and that might be an answer (might even be a Solaris package for it).

Thunderbird is included in Solaris 10 update 4 (August 2007) and newer.
Otherwise, many builds are downloadable from here http://www.sunfreeware.com/mozilla.html

Sha_unix · 09-27-2011, 02:16 AM

Thank you very much Tronayne and Jilliagre

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