sendmail, html and non-Unix network path

[Tom Weinstock_1]

Here is the code:

(
echo "From: HP-UX"
echo "To: tweinstock@foleylaw.com"
echo "Subject: A/R Report"
echo "Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii"
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
echo ""
echo "

...Test

"
) | sendmail -t

This works fine...it comes over as HTML and looks fantastic, except for the link to a network server. As I said in the first posting, I tried using 4 \'s to get the \\servername to come over correctly, but I only get one \ instead of two. Also, from what I can tell, the \t (for the \tmp folder) appears to be coming over as a tab.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help guys, I truly app...

[Tom Weinstock_1]

One more thing to note...in my example above, I put \\servername but the actual server name begins with an "f" and from what I can tell, the \f puts in, what appears to be, a carriage return.

Not sure if it's actually a CR or not, but it looks like it when I "view source".

Tom

[Frank Slootweg]

Sigh, time problems again. My response *precedes* yours.

[Tom Weinstock_1]

I got this when I tried to execute the file.

Syntax error at line 14 : `<<' is not matched.

Tom

[Tom Weinstock_1]

I took the ' - ' out of the cat expression and I think we're in business. I need to do some more testing. Thanks so much for your help!!

Tom

[Frank Slootweg]

I am glad that it seems to be working.

As to the error: Note the *exact* syntax. If possible, copy-and-paste it because web-browsers often use silly fonts.

cat <<-'E@O@F'

is

catEOF

Frank "I hate silly fonts!" Slootweg

[Tom Weinstock_1]

Everything is working great now!! Thanks very much for your help!

Me = Happy Camper

Thanks again!

Tom

[Tom Weinstock_1]

I'm baaaaack...

Everything is working great except when I send these e-mails to Outlook 2002 users. Outlook 2002, it seems, automatically disables any scripting in HTML formatted e-mails. (see Microsoft's KB article # 295957.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;295957) I have been researching this for a couple of days and if I am understanding things correctly, Outlook 2002 will allow these scripts to work if the e-mail is sent from an authenticated user. So, my questions are...

First, is this right? If so, has anyone sent messages from their Unix system (using sendmail) that have been digitally signed? and if so, how is this done?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Tom

[Jordan Bean]

Doesn't this work?

mailx -ms 'A/R Report' tweinstock@foleylaw.com <

Report


EOF

By using forward-slashes with the file protocol, you don't have to worry about escaping back-slashes.