Re: Mailing SQR report from unix

["Jeffrey K. Bedell" <jkbedell@AIS.SYR.EDU>]

I read the postings from this user group every day and save the ones I find
might be useful at some point in the future but have not had occassion to post
any questions myself until today.  What is elm?
-Thanks

"Warner, Dave (CCB)" wrote:

> If you have elm installed you can send attachments like this:
>
> let $command = 'echo "[include /tmp/file1.txt text/plain]\n[include
> /tmp/file2.pdf application/pdf]" | elm -s "Subject" email@address.com'
> call system using $command #mail_status
>
> More files can be included with a \n separating them.
>
> The user who is running the SQR must first run elm once interactively before
> it can be run in "batch mode" like this.
>
> Elm takes care of the uuencoding for you, unlike mail or mailx.
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Karimundackal, Liz J.[SMTP:lkarimundackal@JHANCOCK.COM]
> > Subject:      Mailing SQR report from unix
> >
> > Hi all,
> >         I am trying to mail the report created by my SQR program from the
> > same program.
> >         My code is :
> > let $command = 'uuencode letter.htm letter.htm > letter.uue'
> > call system using $command #encode_status
> > let $command = 'mail lkarimundackal@jhancock.com < letter.uue'
> > call system using $command #mail_status
> >
> > My intention is to send the report as an attachment. I tried the uuencode
> > and the mail command
> > from the unix prompt and it worked great, but when I do the same commands
> > from SQR, the
> > encoded file goes as text, so the mail has a lot of junk as the text. All
> > the files, including the uuencoded
> > file is created properly from SQR and both commands have a success return
> > code.
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Liz J Karimundackal
> > (617) 572-8288
> > e-mail : lkarimundackal@jhancock.com
> >
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