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Send html from command line

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jared71

jared71

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Jul 2, 2001
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Hello,

I'm using the Mail command on Red Hat 9 in a shell script to send out nightly reports. In these I want to provide a link to a reporting dir on a web server. What tool should I use to tell the Mail client that it should send this as html MIME? Just putting the html in a text file and cat'ing it doesn't work. i.e.:

cat template.html | Mail -s "test" me@somesite.com

thanks.

jared
 
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You need to create an email message, and add a content-type header to it so that the client knows to interpret the message as html.

Try adding this at the top of your html template, with the regular email headers:
Code: 
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

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JBR
 
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i think the mail command creates the header, so adding a second one just apperas as text in the message.

thanks.
 
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fyi, it looks like i would need to use a program like METAMAIL to do this, though I found that my mail client performed the desired affect of parsing a url in a txt message and converting it to a link.

jared!
 
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I use ximian evolution as email client. I sent me an email (as you post before) and it works! html page is well see in evolution.

 
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It's got to be some debugging to do with your .html or something. I did this session using telnet:
Code: 
[flugh@argle ~]$ telnet mail.argle.com 25
Trying 11.17.5.91...
Connected to mail.argle.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 argle.com ESMTP
from: flugh
502 unimplemented (#5.5.1)
mail from: flugh
250 ok
rcpt to: foo
250 ok
data
354 go ahead
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
 
<html>
<body>
<a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.flugh.com&quot;>Nothing[/URL] to see here</a>
</body>
</html>
.
250 ok 1075440257 qp 22962
quit
221 argle.com
Connection closed by foreign host.
I get a link in my email. You just need to find the place in your script to add the right header.

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JBR
 
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