send html mail using mailx from script 1

Bootstrap · Sep 3, 2003

I have a filespace monitoring script that places results to an html file. I would like to send this .html file so that it displays in the body of an email. This would be from HP11 to Outlook.

I previously used mailx to send a text file, now sending the html file just shows the contents of the file in the email body. Excerpt

mailx -s "DISKSPACE.SH -- `date`" user@company.com < $EMAIL)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.

Boot

aixmurderer · Sep 4, 2003

Looking at an HTML format email in Outlook I see the following header, perhaps something like that is missing in your HTML page:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>

<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>

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johngiggs · Sep 4, 2003

Bootstrap,

I'm not sure if this will help you any, but below is a sample script that I got recently from another post which will send the file as an attachment.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

FILE=test.html
DEST=user@domain.com
NAME=user

( cat <<-MSGTXT
Hello ${NAME},

Please see the attached file ${FILE}.

Sincerely,

user

MSGTXT

# For executable files uncomment the line below.
#uuencode ${FILE} ${FILE}) | mailx -s "File ${FILE} as of $(date)" ${DEST}

cat ${FILE}) | mailx -s "File ${FILE} as of $(date)" ${DEST}

Thanks,

John [afro]

Ygor · Sep 5, 2003

I think that you will have to use sendmail instead of mailx to send inline html, e.g....

#!/usr/bin/ksh

export MAILTO="recipient@mail.com"
export CONTENT="/tmp/df.html"
export SUBJECT="Disk Space Report"
(
echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
echo "Content-Type: text/html"
echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
cat $CONTENT
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail $MAILTO

Bootstrap · Sep 13, 2003

Thanks for all the input. Ygor, that worked like a charm.

Boot

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