mailx, sendmail html

[jason thompson_1]

Here is what we have, HPUX 10.20 and Sendmail 8.9.3.1. What we are trying to do is send the html source code to a Outlook 2000 client and have it display the page like a browser would. However all I can manage is to get the source code appear in the body. I have searched the forums but have been unable to find a soultion as of yet. Does anyone have some suggestions as how to remedy this?

[someone_4 · Accepted solution]

hi .. in your html page add this to the top above the html code

Content-Type: text/html

Look at the attached example.
The from and subject are optional.

Then

cat file.html | sendmail whoever@wherever.com

and it will get to your outlook 2000 client with the html inside of the body.

Richard

[Steven E. Protter]

If the html code can be put into a file, here is a reliable program that will send it as an attachment.

This is a tested, production script.

SEP

[Seth Parker]

I do something very similar to what Richard suggests. Below is a snippet of the script I use to send out HTML messages.

# Make the message header file
echo "Subject: This is my subject" > header.tmp
echo "Mime-Version: 1.0" >> header.tmp
echo "Content-Type: text/html; charset=usascii" >> header.tmp
echo >> header.tmp

# Cat the header and message file into sendmail and send it
cat header.tmp message.html | /usr/sbin/sendmail whomever@whereever.org

rm header.tmp

Looking at the script Steven posted, it seems that I could do without the MIME part, since there's no MIME encoding. Steven's script looks more full-service than the above, but I thought I'd post this because it's simple.

Steven, where does the HTML message get its content type set in your script? I see the multi-part divider, but I thought that each section needed to have its type defined within the section (this is from memory, so please forgive me if I'm wrong).

Good luck!

[jason thompson_1]

Thanks for the help folks.

[jason thompson_1]

It works great with Sendmail, but not with Mailx. Is there a way to force the content type on Mailx from text/plain to text/html?

[someone_4]

hi for mailx try

uuencode index.html index.html | mailx -s "your subject" whoever@wherever.com

your index.html file does not have to have the Content-Type: text/html.



Richard

[jason thompson_1]

That seems to work however, it sends the file as an attachment. For our purposes we want the file displayed within the body of the message.

[Seth Parker]

I originally tried the mailx way too, but I could never get it to work. Mailx puts the message headers *above* whatever you have as your message text, so the content type gets lost. Sendmail just sends the input (or that was what I determined from the research and experimentation I did).

Mailx clobbers whaterver you try to do to make it not just be a text message, so I think you're going to be stuck with the sendmail method.

Do some experimentation. I sent many messages to myself and examined the actual message text (not the rendered version) to see what was happening.

Good luck!

[someone_4]

hi ..
yes it does send it as an attachment but the attachment is also in the body of the email if you open the email and not just look at it through the preview window.

Richard

[Roderick Derks]

I used the ideas in the script Steven Protter added and it works ok except for the Cc: and Bcc: Mails to these addresses are not send.

# create mail
echo "To: $EMAIL_TO" > ${tmpmail}
echo "From: $EMAIL_FROM" >> ${tmpmail}
echo "Cc: ${EMAIL_CC} ${EMAIL_BCC}" >> ${tmpmail}
echo "Bcc: $EMAIL_BCC" >> ${tmpmail}
echo "Subject: $EMAIL_SUBJECT" >> ${tmpmail}

Anyone got an idea?

[Sandman!]

Jason,

Create a file .mailrc in your $HOME directory and add the following variables (recognized by mailx) to it...

set charset=us-ascii
set encoding=8bit

...then mailx your html file in the body of the message.

hope it helps!

[Roderick Derks]

Hello Jason,

I'm using "sendmail -t" to send the emails.

echo "To: $EMAIL_TO" > ${tmpmail}
echo "From: $EMAIL_FROM" >> ${tmpmail}
echo "Cc: ${EMAIL_CC} >> ${tmpmail}
echo "Bcc: $EMAIL_BCC" >> ${tmpmail}
echo "Subject: $EMAIL_SUBJECT" >> ${tmpmail}

uuencode ${tmpbody} ${tmpbody} >> ${tmpmail}
cat ${tmpmail}| sendmail -t

Mail is received by the "To:" address, subject and body are OK. Only problem is that the "Cc:" (and "Bcc:") don't receive an email. I can't find the problem.

[Roderick Derks]

Pfff. It works. It didn't work last friday. Now the mails are being received by everone. Hmmm. Thanks for helping.

[jason thompson_1]

Thanks for the help