Tried MAILIT? (there you can use HTML if you like, and multi-part emails) Oh yes... I remember having learned recently that Outlook has a setting to "reflow" text lines (that is: Outlook then ignores -some- of the CRLFs). The same mail looked fine in Lotus/Notes, but wrong in Outlook, until the Outlook user found that setting, he didn't know why it got turned on for that mail. And, yes, it was created by MAILIT.
2009/10/1 Schuh, Richard <rsc...@visa.com> > I am trying to send a report to e-mail addresses on a Windows based LAN > using SENDFILE. Originally, the RECFM of the file was V. When the report > arrived, the 5th line was concatenated to the 4th and the 10th to the 9th. > All other lines were correct. There are no weird bytes at either end of any > of the records. For the record, the current LRECL is 94, lines 4 and 5 are > each 49 bytes, 9 is 50 and 10 is 32. There are other consecutive records > having lengths that match either the 4-5 or the 9-10 combinations. This does > not appear to be a record length problem > > I have tried various things while attempting to fix this: > > 1. x'15' at the end of every line. No concatenation, but every line was > double-spaced. > 2. x'15' at the end of lines 4 and 9. No concatenation, but 5 and 10 were > double-spaced. > 3. x'0D' at the end of each line. No affect, the error still occurred the > same as the original failure. > 4. x'0A' at the end of each line. Error still occurred, and there was a > small square at the end of each line. > 5. x'0D0A' at the end of each line. Double-spaced, concatenation still > present, square as above. > 6. Copied the file making the RECFM F, LRECL 94. Success. Other LRECLs > 94 > also work. > > Just for grins, I tried using HTML enrichment. The result was chaos, even > if I sandwiched the report between <pre> and </pre> tags. > > Now for the questions: > > Why just those two concatenations? > > Should any of those attempts have succeeded while the RECFM was V? > > I am perfectly willing to create the report as RECFM F. That will, however, > require that I either make the LRECL something at least as large as the > largest possible record (which is unknown at this time) or create the file > as format V and then use > > 'COPYFILE fn ft fm (RECFM F' > > To convert it before sending the mail. The latter is the method that will > cause the least pain. > > Regards, > Richard Schuh > > > > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
