Unfortunately I don't have any of the email modules installed

Please see Yes, even you can use CPAN - if you can install Perl scripts on the server, then normally you can install modules there too, for example with local::lib.

Could you please post an example on how to encode the zip file into the temp file?

I initially thought that uuencode could write its output to a file, but I was mistaken, it apparently always writes to its standard output. Since I don't recommend qx//, capturing its output is not trivial - see the section "Use a Piped open" in that link for a way to do it with pure Perl. Alternatively, you don't have to shell out at all, since pack supports uuencoding - with thanks to the Perl Power Tools:

# takes one argument, the filename to encode
# returns one value, the filename of the temporary(!) output file
use File::Temp qw/tempfile/;
sub uuencode {
    my ($infile) = @_;
    my ($tfh,$tfn) = tempfile(UNLINK=>1);
    open my $fh, '<:raw', $infile or die "$infile: $!";
    printf $tfh "begin %03o %s\n",
        ((stat($infile))[2] & 0666)||0644, $infile;
    my $buf;
    print $tfh pack 'u', $buf while read $fh, $buf, 45;
    print $tfh "`\n", "end\n";
    close $fh; close $tfh;
    return $tfn;
}

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That will return the filename of the temporary file that you can then pass to mailx - but make sure to use the "list" form of system, as I showed in the above link as well.

By the way, in your original post, you said mailx -r $recipient1 - but the -r option sets the From address. Are you sure you've got your mailx command right?

In reply to Re^3: Trouble emailing zip file by haukex
in thread Trouble emailing zip file by TonyNY

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