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I need to send an email with a text file as attachment using shell script in HP-UX; I don't have mutt installed. I am using following command but it sends the file content in body of email, I want it as an attachment. mailx -s "Report" name@example.com < file.txt I wrote this ksh function a few years ago # usage: email_attachment to cc subject body attachment_filename email_attachment() { to="$1" cc="$2" subject="$3" body="$4" filename="${5:-''}" boundary="_====_blah_====_$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)_====_" { print -- "To: $to" print -- "Cc: $cc" print -- "Subject: $subject" print -- "Content-Type:

I want to send email from HP unix using mailx command. I have to include cc and bcc in my email and have to use the specific email address as the sender. But -r (which is to define the sender's email address) will disalbe ~ commands so if i have to define the sender's email address, i cannot use ~c and ~b commands for cc and bcc. Is there any work around???? cos these are the requirements from the user. Thanks. Just re-order the arguments to mailx command. That would give the desired result $ echo "something" | mailx -s "subject" -b bcc_user@some.com -c cc_user@some.com -r sender@some.com

I understood that for changing sender's name with mailx I should do the following: mailx -r newmail@mail.com -s "some subject" my@email.com But when I do that, I get: mailx: invalid option -- r Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ... [-- sendmail-options ...] mail [-iInNv] -f [name] mail [-iInNv] [-u user Does anyone knows what's happening? thanks, The correct syntax is: mailx -s "some subject" my@email.com -- -r newmail@mail.com The Usage info shows "[-- sendmail-options ...]" and since "-r" is a sendmail option, you need to use the double dashes first. mailx