Issue with email -a (Zip files)

Issue with email -a (Zip files)

[Priyanka Joshi]

Hi Team,



I am facing issue when I am trying to send zip file as attachment, same command works fine for xml file.



PFB commands for reference:



email -s "BHN Test Automation Report" -a allure-report.zip priyanka.joshi@bhnetwork.com<mailto:priyanka.joshi@bhnetwork.com>  ==> Not triggering any email and not throwing any error.



====

Below command worked fine and sent testng.xml as attachment

email -s "BHN Test Automation Report" -a testng.xml priyanka.joshi@bhnetwork.com<mailto:priyanka.joshi@bhnetwork.com>



Please let us know how to debug and fix the zip attachment issue.



Regards,

Priyanka


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Re: Issue with email -a (Zip files)

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-01-30 02:21, Priyanka Joshi wrote:
> I am facing issue when I am trying to send zip file as attachment, same 
> command works fine for xml file.
> 
> PFB commands for reference:
> 
> Below command worked fine and sent testng.xml as attachment
> email -s "BHN Test Automation Report" -a testng.xml priyanka.joshi@bhnetwork.com
> 
> email -s "BHN Test Automation Report" -a allure-report.zip priyanka.joshi@bhnetwork.com
> ==> Not triggering any email and not throwing any error.
>
> Please let us know how to debug and fix the zip attachment issue.

Cygwin email requires -b option flag, body text on stdin, or invokes your editor
for body text entry to send emails.
First, check location, version, and test:

	$ which email
	/usr/bin/email
	$ email --version
	email - By Dean Jones; Version 3.2.3-git
	$ email -b -s "Test zip send" -a Downloads/....zip above-email-address

worked for me, with a random downloaded small zip file, also worked whether I
echoed or redirected text into stdin, or did neither and typed body text into
the editor window opened on a tmp file.

Corporate networks often have filters and strict rules about what may be
included in a zip file, may be both outgoing and incoming; they could even have
Outlook, other email client, or generic email filters on your desktop system.
Talk to your IT mail and security admins to find out what is filtered where.
Try renaming the zip file as if xml or something safe, and see if that works,
and if not, try putting your xml in a zip file, and see if that works.

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RE: Issue with email -a (Zip files)

[Priyanka Joshi]

Thanks Brian!

Can you please let me know if there is any way to check SMTP error logs for the email not getting sent.

I am trying to enable the logs but facing issue with inetmgr.dll and smtpsnap.dll and not seeing SMTP option under IIS.

PFB updates on the steps shared:

>which email
/usr/bin/email

>email --version
email - By Dean Jones; Version 3.2.3-git

, try putting your xml in a zip file, and see if that works. ==>It worked

>email -b -s "Test zip send" -a test.zip priyanka.joshi@bhnetwork.com

Try renaming the zip file as if xml or something safe

==>Tried renaming to xml but email was not triggered, I will check with the network team if there are any restrictions


Regards,
Priyanka

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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> 
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2020 3:27 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Priyanka Joshi <Priyanka.Joshi@bhnetwork.com>
Subject: Re: Issue with email -a (Zip files)

On 2020-01-30 02:21, Priyanka Joshi wrote:
> I am facing issue when I am trying to send zip file as attachment, 
> same command works fine for xml file.
> 
> PFB commands for reference:
> 
> Below command worked fine and sent testng.xml as attachment email -s 
> "BHN Test Automation Report" -a testng.xml 
> priyanka.joshi@bhnetwork.com
> 
> email -s "BHN Test Automation Report" -a allure-report.zip 
> priyanka.joshi@bhnetwork.com ==> Not triggering any email and not throwing any error.
>
> Please let us know how to debug and fix the zip attachment issue.

Cygwin email requires -b option flag, body text on stdin, or invokes your editor for body text entry to send emails.
First, check location, version, and test:

	$ which email
	/usr/bin/email
	$ email --version
	email - By Dean Jones; Version 3.2.3-git
	$ email -b -s "Test zip send" -a Downloads/....zip above-email-address

worked for me, with a random downloaded small zip file, also worked whether I echoed or redirected text into stdin, or did neither and typed body text into the editor window opened on a tmp file.

Corporate networks often have filters and strict rules about what may be included in a zip file, may be both outgoing and incoming; they could even have Outlook, other email client, or generic email filters on your desktop system.
Talk to your IT mail and security admins to find out what is filtered where.
Try renaming the zip file as if xml or something safe, and see if that works, and if not, try putting your xml in a zip file, and see if that works.

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Re: Issue with email -a (Zip files)

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-01-30 23:40, Priyanka Joshi wrote:
> On Friday, January 31, 2020 3:27 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2020-01-30 02:21, Priyanka Joshi wrote:
>>> I am facing issue when I am trying to send zip file as attachment, 
>>> same command works fine for xml file.
>>>
>>> PFB commands for reference:
>>>
>>> Below command worked fine and sent testng.xml as attachment email -s "BHN
>>> Test Automation Report" -a testng.xml priyanka.joshi@bhnetwork.com
>>>
>>> email -s "BHN Test Automation Report" -a allure-report.zip 
>>> priyanka.joshi@bhnetwork.com ==> Not triggering any email and not
>>> throwing any error.
>>>
>>> Please let us know how to debug and fix the zip attachment issue.

>> Cygwin email requires -b option flag, body text on stdin, or invokes your 
>> editor for body text entry to send emails.
>> First, check location, version, and test:
>> 
>> 	$ which email
>> 	/usr/bin/email
>> 	$ email --version
>> 	email - By Dean Jones; Version 3.2.3-git
>> 	$ email -b -s "Test zip send" -a Downloads/....zip above-email-address
>> 
>> worked for me, with a random downloaded small zip file, also worked whether
>> I echoed or redirected text into stdin, or did neither and typed body text
>> into the editor window opened on a tmp file.
>> 
>> Corporate networks often have filters and strict rules about what may be 
>> included in a zip file, may be both outgoing and incoming; they could even
>> have Outlook, other email client, or generic email filters on your desktop
>> system.
>> Talk to your IT mail and security admins to find out what is filtered where.
>> Try renaming the zip file as if xml or something safe, and see if that 
>> works, and if not, try putting your xml in a zip file, and see if that
>> works.

> Can you please let me know if there is any way to check SMTP error logs for 
> the email not getting sent.>
> I am trying to enable the logs but facing issue with inetmgr.dll and 
> smtpsnap.dll and not seeing SMTP option under IIS.>
> PFB updates on the steps shared:>
>> which email> /usr/bin/email>
>> email --version> email - By Dean Jones; Version 3.2.3-git>
> try putting your xml in a zip file, and see if that works. ==>It worked>
>> email -b -s "Test zip send" -a test.zip priyanka.joshi@bhnetwork.com>
> Try renaming the zip file as if xml or something safe>
> ==>Tried renaming to xml but email was not triggered, I will check with the 
> network team if there are any restrictions
Your email site or system configuration should be in /etc/email/email.conf where
you should configure your global system SMTP server characteristics,
authentication settings, sendmail location and options, gpg/2 location and
options, etc.;
you should copy these options into your personal configuration ~/.email.conf,
which overrides whether the global file /etc/email/email.conf is looked for,
where you should also configure your name, email and reply to addresses, .sig
file location, address book, authorization username and password, and email log
directory SAVE_SENT_MAIL (suggest using ~/.config/email/, ~/.email/ or perhaps
~/) in which email will create file email.sent, where you can see what email has
done.

When testing problematic files, add option flag -V, --verbose to see what email
thinks is happening.

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