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How send html mail using linux command line

Answer 1

+3 A:

you should use "append" mode redirection >> instead of >

ghostdog74 2010-04-07 10:56:09

sorry, this is old code. I have fixed it.

Diesel Draft 2010-04-07 11:20:32

Answer 2

+1 A:

Try with :

echo "To: [email protected]" > /var/www/report.csv
echo "Subject: Subject" >> /var/www/report.csv
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0" >> /var/www/report.csv
echo "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"us-ascii\"" >> /var/www/report.csv
echo "Content-Disposition: inline" >> /var/www/report.csv

echo "<html>" >> /var/www/report.csv
mysql -u ***** -p***** -H -e "select * from users LIMIT 20" dev >> /var/www/report.csv
echo "</html>" >> /var/www/report.csv

mail -s "Built notification" [email protected] < /var/www/report.csv

Simone Margaritelli 2010-04-07 10:59:01

Answer 3

A:

The problem is that when redirecting a file into 'mail' like that, it's used for the message body only. Any headers you embed in the file will go into the body instead.

Try:

mail --append="Content-type: text/html" -s "Built notification" [email protected] < /var/www/report.csv

--append lets you add arbitrary headers to the mail, which is where you should specify the content-type and content-disposition. There's no need to embed the To and Subject headers in your file, or specify them with --append, since you're implicitly setting them on the command line already (-s is the subject, and [email protected] automatically becomes the To).

Marc B 2010-04-07 22:17:47

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