Re: uuencode in mailx

[tekumal sai krishna]

Thanks for the email , Paul. Found the issue.

Thanks
Saikrishna.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 9:27 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 4/25/22 17:04, tekumal sai krishna wrote:
> > In the older host
> > the "UUENCODE" command works fine while in the new host although it
> encodes
> > the file but doesn't send the email as an attachment rather sends in the
> > email body with ASCII values.
>
> Is this a problem with uuencode or with your "mail" command? I'd guess
> the latter, in which case you'd need to send a bug report to whoever
> maintains your "mail" command, not to bug-gnu-utils.
>
> To see whether it's a uuencode problem, run the command
>
> uuencode test.txt test_attachment.test >outfile
> uudecode <outfile >infile
> cmp infile test.txt
>
> on both Solaris and GNU/Linux, and compare the output files. If you get
> the same results, I doubt whether it's a uuencode bug.
>