sharutils || uuencode

Hi Team,
Hope you all are doing well during these asking times for humanity.

Requesting you to kindly share your thoughts on the below issue that I have=
 on hand.

Problem Statement:

I am currently upgrading my server from "OEL5-u10 v1.0" to "OL7-latest v1.0=
". The version are basically Oracle enterprise linux versions though they a=
re same as RHEL versions.

The particular utility uuencode was running fine on OEL5 but is not working=
 on OL7. The attachments in OL7 are not getting attached but rather getting=
 pasted in mail body.

I was surfing through google to see if I can get help on any forum and foun=
d one below URL which says that uuencode is no longer being supported from =
version 6 onwards of RHEL.

Uuencode for mail attachments not working (unix.com)<https://www.unix.com/s=
hell-programming-and-scripting/252437-uuencode-mail-attachments-not-working=
.html>

"The sharutils package that used to provide uuencode was deprecated in rhel=
6, since mailx is able to send MIME attachments, as you have already figure=
d out."


Could you kindly confirm the same please?



Thanks and Regards,
Pushkar Shandilya
+91-9007761569