Unix pdf mail attachement error

Are you able to open the pdf file before you encode and sent it?

@CEHJ:Yes i have FTP'd it to windows and it opens normally.
Only when i send using the above format i am not able to open it.
Please help...

Do not UUENCODE the file ... this will not work with (m)any "modern" email clients ...
Your best choice would be a MIME attachment, which you can't automatically generate with mailx ...
Instead, look into e.g. "metamail" - it contains a program named "metasend" which does what you want without requiring uuencoding (or mimencoding) the file first ... e.g.:

metasend -b -t destuser@mail.com -s "Th Mail Subject" -m application/pdf -f document.pdf

You could try base64-encoding it using the -m option to uuencode...

@Garry-G & @CEHJ:Its throwing an error saying metasend command not found.
Please help...

Well maybe you don't have that utility ;)

Depending on your Unix flavor/distribution, you can either just use your packet distribution tool (apt, rpm, yast etc.) to install the binaries, or download the source & compile, eg. from http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/metamail/

@CEHJ:Would the syntax be as follows:
uuencode -m base64-encoding files sample.pdf | mailx -s "PDF Mail4" user@mailaddress as this is not working.
Please help...