When sending files as SMTP email attachments from SAS^® 9.2 and later, the following error might occur:

   ERROR: An attachment record was truncated. The attachment LRECL is too small.

However, increasing the value of LRECL does not prevent the error.

To circumvent, specify the CONTENT_TYPE= (or CT=) option in the FILENAME statement for the attachment as shown in the example below:

   filename sendit email from="user@company.com" 
   to="someone@domain.com" 
   subject="Excel files from SAS"
   attach=("myfile.xls" content_type="application/vnd.ms-excel");

The value for CONTENT_TYPE can be determined by looking at the MIME type of the file. For example, some common file extensions with content_type values are:

    *.html  text/html
    *.pdf   application/pdf
    *.rtf   application/rtf
    *.xls   application/vnd.ms-excel

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