help- how to reduce Size of Email attachment send via Crontab

acid_kewpie · 02-29-2012, 03:15 AM

The uuencode is what makes the file an attachment, so if you mess with it after encoding it, it will no longer be taken to be an attachment.

Obviously uuencode doesn't understand Excel sheets, so you can compress the data *before* the uuencode.

gzip -9 SAC_Tire.xls
uuencode SAC_Tire.xls.gz SAC_Tire.xls.gz | mail -s "SAC Weekly Tire Report" Mailid@yahoo.com

that looks closer to me. can't test it here though.

Read the link chrism01 gave, that's useful.

pnandak · 02-29-2012, 06:10 AM

Thanks for the support.Its working now.
Adding to that,
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uuencode SAC_Tire.xls.gz SAC_Tire.xls.gz > UCD_SAC_Tire.xls.gz

cat body-message.txt UCD_SAC_Tire.xls.gz > combined.txt
mailx -s "Test" -r "Automotive " `cat mailpcp1.dat` < combined.txt
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ques:
1)how to keep To and CC mail ids - to the above code

2)in the Mailing list (i have client email id as well as some more email id- but the Mail id appears in alphabetical order..i wanted it to come as given in the .txt file -- is there any way)

pnandak · 02-29-2012, 08:19 AM

Thanks for the support.Its working now.
Adding to that,
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uuencode SAC_Tire.xls.gz SAC_Tire.xls.gz > UCD_SAC_Tire.xls.gz

cat body-message.txt UCD_SAC_Tire.xls.gz > combined.txt
mailx -s "Test" -r "Automotive " `cat mailpcp1.dat` < combined.txt
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ques:
1)how to keep To and CC mail ids - to the above code

2)in the Mailing list (i have client email id as well as some more email id- but the Mail id appears in alphabetical order..i wanted it to come as given in the .txt file -- is there any way)

chrism01 · 02-29-2012, 06:12 PM

Have you looked at the 2nd example in post #4 of that link; that's more the sort of thing you are asking I think