Re: Email Attachment using Call / Call System Using comand

[Dennis Palmer <Dennis.Palmer@FERGUSON.COM>]

   I have had good success with 'elm' in Unix.  See the code
   snippets below.   Check your 'man' pages for 'elm'.  You
   probably have it.  Most Unix installations do.  You build
   a commands type file which tells elm to attach the designated
   file.  Then uuencode your attachment file if need be and
   then you are good to go.  Note I left some stuff out for
   the sake of brevity.  You can flesh it out if you decide to
   use this approach.

   Regards,
   DennisP

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   .
   .
   .
        ! use 'elm' to email the file

 do Write-Elm-Control-File     ! load the 'attachment' command into a txt file 
for elm

 let $unix_cmd = 'elm -s "Email subject goes here" joe.blow@somewhere.com < ' 
|| $filename
 call SYSTEM using $unix_cmd #status
   .
   .
   .

begin-procedure Write-Elm-Control-File

   let $filename = $newreport1 || 'elm_txt'

   open $filename as 1  for-WRITING  record=100:vary  status=#filestat
   if #filestat <> 0
      show ' '            ! spacing
      show 'Error opening ' $filename
      stop   (or whatever error handling you want to do)
   end-if

   let $tmp      = '[include ' || $uue_filename || ' application/octet-stream]'

   write 1 from
     $tmp
   .
   .
   .

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-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of SQR, Brio Software's database reporting language
[mailto:SQR-USERS@list.iex.net]On Behalf Of Tshenuwani Makhari
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 10:10 AM
To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
Subject: Email Attachment using Call / Call System Using comand


I am unable to send attachments using the call command , Please help !!
Here is my piece of code :
   Let $Command =  ' mail  tshenuwani@infowave.co.za  < /docs/ff.dat'
   call system using  $command  #unix_status

WHERE ff.dat contains the mail message body.

Any other way to do this from UNIX environment ??

Regards

Tshenuwani  Makhari

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