I need to send email with html format. I have only linux command line and command "mail".
Currently have used:
echo "To: [email protected]" > /var/www/report.csv
echo "Subject: Subject" >> /var/www/report.csv
echo "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"us-ascii\"" >> /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
But in my mail-agent i get only plain/text.
The answer is
I found a really easy solution: add to the mail command the modifier -aContent-Type:text/html.
In your case would be:
mail -aContent-Type:text/html -s "Built notification" [email protected] < /var/www/report.csv
Very old question, however it ranked high when I googled a question about this.
Find the answer here:
With heirloom-mailx you can change sendmail program to your hook script, replace headers there and then use sendmail.
The script I use (~/bin/sendmail-hook):
#!/bin/bash
sed '1,/^$/{
s,^\(Content-Type: \).*$,\1text/html; charset=utf-8,g
s,^\(Content-Transfer-Encoding: \).*$,\18bit,g
}' | sendmail $@
This script changes the values in the mail header as follows:
Content-Type:totext/html; charset=utf-8Content-Transfer-Encoding:to8bit(not sure if this is really needed).
To send HTML email:
mail -Ssendmail='~/bin/sendmail-hook' \
-s "Built notification" [email protected] < /var/www/report.csv
The problem is that when redirecting a file into 'mail' like that, it's used for the message body only. Any headers you embed in the file will go into the body instead.
Try:
mail --append="Content-type: text/html" -s "Built notification" [email protected] < /var/www/report.csv
--append lets you add arbitrary headers to the mail, which is where you should specify the content-type and content-disposition. There's no need to embed the To and Subject headers in your file, or specify them with --append, since you're implicitly setting them on the command line already (-s is the subject, and [email protected] automatically becomes the To).
My version of mail does not have --append and it too smart for the echo -e \n-trick (it simply replaces \n with space). It does, however, have -a:
mail -a "Content-type: text/html" -s "Built notification" [email protected] < /var/www/report.html
On OS X (10.9.4), cat works, and is easier if your email is already in a file:
cat email_template.html | mail -s "$(echo -e "Test\nContent-Type: text/html")" [email protected]
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
you should use "append" mode redirection >> instead of >
This worked for me:
echo "<b>HTML Message goes here</b>" | mail -s "$(echo -e "This is the subject\nContent-Type: text/html")" [email protected]
Command Line
Create a file named tmp.html with the following contents:
<b>my bold message</b>
Next, paste the following into the command line (parentheses and all):
(
echo To: [email protected]
echo From: [email protected]
echo "Content-Type: text/html; "
echo Subject: a logfile
echo
cat tmp.html
) | sendmail -t
The mail will be dispatched including a bold message due to the <b> element.
Shell Script
As a script, save the following as email.sh:
ARG_EMAIL_TO="[email protected]"
ARG_EMAIL_FROM="Your Name <[email protected]>"
ARG_EMAIL_SUBJECT="Subject Line"
(
echo "To: ${ARG_EMAIL_TO}"
echo "From: ${ARG_EMAIL_FROM}"
echo "Subject: ${ARG_EMAIL_SUBJECT}"
echo "Mime-Version: 1.0"
echo "Content-Type: text/html; charset='utf-8'"
echo
cat contents.html
) | sendmail -t
Create a file named contents.html in the same directory as the email.sh script that resembles:
<html><head><title>Subject Line</title></head>
<body>
<p style='color:red'>HTML Content</p>
</body>
</html>
Run email.sh. When the email arrives, the HTML Content text will appear red.
Related
I was struggling with similar problem (with mail) in one of my git's post_receive hooks and finally I found out, that sendmail actually works better for that kind of things, especially if you know a bit of how e-mails are constructed (and it seems like you know). I know this answer comes very late, but maybe it will be of some use to others too. I made use of heredoc operator and use of the feature, that it expands variables, so it can also run inlined scripts. Just check this out (bash script):
#!/bin/bash
recipients=(
'[email protected]'
'[email protected]'
# '[email protected]'
);
sender='[email protected]';
subject='Oh, who really cares, seriously...';
sendmail -t <<-MAIL
From: ${sender}
`for r in "${recipients[@]}"; do echo "To: ${r}"; done;`
Subject: ${subject}
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
<html><head><meta charset="UTF-8"/></head>
<body><p>Ladies and gents, here comes the report!</p>
<pre>`mysql -u ***** -p***** -H -e "SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 20"`</pre>
</body></html>
MAIL
Note of backticks in the MAIL part to generate some output and remember, that <<- operator strips only tabs (not spaces) from the beginning of lines, so in that case copy-paste will not work (you need to replace indentation with proper tabs). Or use << operator and make no indentation at all. Hope this will help someone. Of course you can use backticks outside o MAIL part and save the output into some variable, that you can later use in the MAIL part — matter of taste and readability. And I know, #!/bin/bash does not always work on every system.
Source: Stackoverflow.com