How to send a html email with the bash command sendmail

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Anyone has a demo available   Sendmail is said to be not scalable but it s free so I decided to use it first for now

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If I understand you correctly  you want to send mail in HTML format using linux sendmail command  This code is working on Unix  Please give it a try   echo  From  me xyz com To  them xyz com MIME-Version  1 0 Content-Type  multipart alternative  boundary  PAA08673 1018277622 server xyz com  Subject  Test HTML e-mail   This is a MIME-encapsulated message  --PAA08673 1018277622 server xyz com Content-Type  text html   lt html gt    lt head gt   lt title gt HTML E-mail lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt   lt a href  http   www google com  gt Click Here lt  a gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt  --PAA08673 1018277622 server xyz com     sendmail -t   For the sendmail configuration details  please refer to this link  Hope this helps

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To follow up on the previous answer using mail    Often times one s html output is interpreted by the client mailer  which may not format things using a fixed-width font  Thus your nicely formatted ascii alignment gets all messed up  To send old-fashioned fixed-width the way the God intended  try this     echo -e   lt pre gt   echo  Descriptive text here   shell command 1 here another shell command cat  lt  lt EOF  This is the ending text   lt  pre gt  lt br gt   lt  div gt  EOF     mail -s    echo -e  Your subject  nContent-Type  text html    to address company com   You don t necessarily need the  Descriptive text here   line  but I have found that sometimes the first line may  depending on its contents  cause the mail program to interpret the rest of the file in ways you did not intend  Try the script with simple descriptive text first  before fine tuning the output in the way that you want

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This page should help - http   www zedwood com article 103 bash-send-mail-with-an-attachment  It includes a script to send e-mail with a MIME attachment  ie with a HTML page and images included

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-a option   Cf  man page   -a file           Attach the given file to the message    Result   Content-Type  text html  No such file or directory

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It s simpler to use  the -a option    cat   campaigns release-status html   mail -s  Release Status  Green   -a  Content-Type  text html  to address company com

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The following works     echo  From    from    echo  To    to    echo  Subject    subject    echo  Content-Type  text html   echo  MIME-Version  1 0   echo     echo    message        sendmail -t   For troubleshooting msmtp  which is compatible with sendmail  see    https   wiki archlinux org index php Msmtp https   superuser com a 868900 9067

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Found solution in http   senthilkl blogspot lu 2012 11 how-to-send-html-emails-using-sendemail html  sendEmail -f  oracle server  -t  name domain com  -u  Alert  Backup complete  -o message-content-type html -o message-file  LOG FILE   -a  LOG FILE ATTACH

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I understand you asked for sendmail but why not use the default mail  It can easily send html emails   Works on  RHEL 5 10 6 x  amp  CentOS 5 8  Example   cat   campaigns release-status html   mail -s    echo -e  Release Status  Green  nContent-Type  text html    to address company com -v   CodeShare  http   www codeshare io 8udx5

[linux] How to send a html email with the bash command "sendmail"?

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