Question

email excel sheet as attachment using Sendmail

Asked by: sreehariharan

Experts,

Am having Sendmail installed on SunOS... Am able to attach and email Plain/Text file
But when i tried to attach & send Excel sheet using my script. am receiving excel sheet. when i download and open Ooops the file is in unrecognized format.....

I tried Content-type as application/vnd.excel

{
echo To: $EMAIL_TO
echo From: $EMAIL_FROM
echo Subject: $EMAIL_SUBJECT
echo 'MIME-Version: 1.0'
echo 'Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="***"'
echo '--***'
echo ''
echo $EMAIL_BODY
echo '--***'
echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'$FILE_NAME'"'
echo ''
cat $ATTACHED_FILE
echo '--***'
} | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t $EMAIL_TO

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Asked On: 2009-02-24 at 11:44:38ID24173413
Tags: excel
,; sendmail
,; MIME
,; mail
Topics: SendMail Email Server
,; Bourne Shell (sh)
,; Shell Scripting
Participating Experts: 3
Points: 500
Comments: 22

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by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-02-24 at 12:04:09ID: 23725732

you run uuencode on the file, e.g.

uuencode myfile.xls < myfile.xls | sendmail username@domain

by: sreehariharanPosted on 2009-02-25 at 06:16:00ID: 23733723

Hi omarfarid,
Thanks for your Quick Reply... Here i need to specify From address also externally... will you please suggest me the step.

by: sreehariharanPosted on 2009-02-25 at 06:19:17ID: 23733762

Hi I tried your Solution also as

uuencode myfile.xls < /home/user/src/myfile.xls | /usr/sbin/sendmail mymailid@gmail.com

but i received mail with junk letters

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M````````````````$```!0````$```#^____``````8```#_____________
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by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-02-25 at 10:28:08ID: 23736682

try this

uuencode myfile.xls myfile.xls | mailx -s "subject" user@domain.com

by: sreehariharanPosted on 2009-03-03 at 01:23:16ID: 23782107

I Tried and tired on searching with this....
This also showing some junk mails....

begin 775 workbook.xls
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M````````````````````````````````````````````````%@`%`?______
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`
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by: oklitPosted on 2009-03-03 at 01:49:49ID: 23782220

Can you use mutt/mail/mailx instead of sendmail?

by: oklitPosted on 2009-03-03 at 02:02:58ID: 23782279

Oh, I see that omarfarid already wrote about mailx. mutt would be the easiest way :)
echo "body of email" | mutt -x -a file.to.attach user@domain

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-03-03 at 04:11:39ID: 23782954

oklit:

Please feel free to repeat the same recommendation since it might strength the proposed one.

by: sreehariharanPosted on 2009-03-03 at 19:42:03ID: 23791517

Oklit,
Thanks for ur response and omarfarid thanks for ur support...

I tried with mutt, but it was not configured in my server.
am getting following error

ksh: mutt:  not found

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by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-03-03 at 21:04:37ID: 23791851

you may download and install from sunfreeware.com:\

http://sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc10.html#mutt
ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/10/mutt-1.5.18-sol10-sparc-local.gz

The provided links are for solaris 10. Please note that you may need to install additional s/w, please see dependencies in the provided link.

Once downloaded, run

gunzip mutt-1.5.18-sol10-sparc-local.gz
pkgadd -d mutt-1.5.18-sol10-sparc-local

by: sreehariharanPosted on 2009-03-03 at 21:18:49ID: 23791898

Omar... But this to be on our server Machines and we dont have access to install any softwares...
do we cant send with sendmail itself by changing the option of Content-Type Encoding such things ?...

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-03-03 at 21:38:20ID: 23791966

What client do you use to read received messages? mail clients like mail and mailx can not deal with attachments.

by: sreehariharanPosted on 2009-03-03 at 23:10:04ID: 23792266

We are not having any mail Clients.. This is the SunOS box with CLI and not a GUI. Its having Sendmail software to send mails... and not having any clients to read... Since this server machine is used to send mail only and not intend of receiving mails....

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-03-03 at 23:29:03ID: 23792379

in your previous posts you showed that you are getting text and no attachments. From where you were reading this email?

by: sreehariharanPosted on 2009-03-04 at 04:31:22ID: 23794025

am sending it to my Gmail ID and from there am reading my mails and posting...

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-03-04 at 04:38:48ID: 23794085

how the excel sheet is uploaded to solaris server? are you using ftp to upload?

by: sreehariharanPosted on 2009-03-04 at 05:06:25ID: 23794284

yes i ftped in binary mode...

Here i made some modification to my code
Please see the code Snippet...
am using encoding technique as X-UUencode
am able to receive my proper excel sheet in my IBM Lotus Mail Client, but not with gmail...
when i opened with gmail its showing some junk charecters...
i found that gmails and most of the mail-exchanges are using base64 type encoding....
do you know how to convert our files from binary to base64?...

#!/usr/bin/sh
 
export EMAIL_FROM=$1
export EMAIL_TO=$2
export EMAIL_SUBJECT=$3
export EMAIL_BODY=$4
export FILE_NAME=$5
export ATTACHED_FILE=$6
 
{
echo To: $EMAIL_TO
echo From: $EMAIL_FROM
echo Subject: $EMAIL_SUBJECT
echo 'MIME-Version: 1.0'
echo 'Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="***"'
echo ''
echo '--***'
echo 'Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1'
echo 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable'
echo ''
echo $EMAIL_BODY
echo '--***'
echo 'Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel; name="'$FILE_NAME'"'
echo 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: X-uuencode'
echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'$FILE_NAME'"'
echo ''
uuencode $ATTACHED_FILE $ATTACHED_FILE
echo '--***'
} | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t $EMAIL_TO
 
echo "Mail Sent"

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by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-03-04 at 06:12:18ID: 23794826

uuencode has th -m option which according to man page:

" -m Encodes source-file using Base64 encoding and sends it to standard output."

I used it and sent file to gmail and faced same problem. hotmail rejected my message and could not verify, however I tried it with some other mail system and it was received properly.

by: sreehariharanPosted on 2009-03-04 at 07:09:11ID: 23795409

Ya same issue for me too... But my OS is HP-UX, i wrongly mentioned as SunOS...
in HP-UX it doesnt have -m option... :(

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-03-04 at 07:22:52ID: 23795564

I think the problem is with gmail and not with uuencode since it is widely used on unix and linux to encode attachments. Please see:

http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Reading-Messages-en/browse_thread/thread/f82d5b5955454f45
http://markmail.org/message/cw2bozcoq3zvifvn
http://fixunix.com/sco/90424-gmail-uuencode.html
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t669453-re-encodingencryption.html

by: sreehariharanPosted on 2009-04-13 at 15:45:33ID: 24133518

I Checked with the same on hotmail and also on Yahoo too...
i received the same error... its not decrypting my excel sheet properly...

by: anand_2000vPosted on 2009-08-10 at 05:44:14ID: 25059377

send mail will not work. try

uuencode myfile.xls myfile.xls | mailx -s <Subject u wish to give > username@domain

if mailx is not working , use mail command

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