larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/4/05, Fred James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All > > This a bit off topic, but it does start with Unix. The question first, > > and then the details for those who are interested. > > > > Question: > > From a Unix system, I need to send script generated email to a list of > > addresses with an attachment. The recipients are a mixed bag - PC and > > MAC users, and some use Notes as their mail client. As detailed below, > > the result for some MAC/Notes user is less than satisfactory when I use > > 'uuencode'. Can anyone suggest another route, or some documentation, > > please? Or is this just a hopeless case of non-interoperability? > > > > is base64 encoding more palatable? > > generating well formed MIME attachments is tricky, I have had the most > success using python's Email package to solve that prob. > Is it possible for you to install and use 'nail' - a MIME-compliant replacement for mail/mailx ? If so you can then do away with the uuencode thing which, IIRC, is for sending attachments to non-MIME-compliant clients - which none of your "customers" are I bet.
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