Script to send HTML email

[Marty Metras]

I have scripts that check logs and files that users need to be alerted to and it email them a message.
What I wanted to do is send the emails like an html document so I could add some color to it so they might know how fast they need to look at it.
Using shell script to create a HTML attachment is easy.
What I do not know is how code it so when I send it and the uses opens the email it is a html document.
After searching the web I find a lot of package that do this. I don't want to any thing fancy. Besides I have fun writing little scrpts that do neat things.

Normally I just use "mail -s "Alert Message" userID What would be needed if this message was HTML.

Marty

[Mark Greene_1]

The mail client the recipient is using should detect the html in the message automatically, and then display it accordingly.

You can try using uuencode with it, but I don't belive it would be needed.

mark

[Marty Metras]

When I email a HTML document it comes through as html code.

I am sending the file like this. (Typo above)

mailx -s "test html message marty"
There has to be a way to tag the html file taht is an html so the client software will display it.
I use outlook and it open other html emails but I do not see how it knows to do so.

Marty

[Oviwan]

Hi

instead of html formatted you can use the command "banner" to generate your message-file. i don't know whether it helps you.

Regards

[Marty Metras]

I know about banner.
I do that now with some of the messages.
I thought the might be an easy to send a hrml file the would open right up without being an attachment.
I just wanted to try to get a little fancy.
Marty

[Dave La Mar]

Marty -
We have many jobs that do this, sending the HTML as an attachment to a user on Outlook from our 11.0 machines.

This is the mailx command used -

uuencode ${OUTPUT_FILE} "Netbackup Daily Report_${Yesterday}.html" | $MAIL -s "Netbackup Nightly Jobs Report For ${YDATE}" ${ADDRESS}

If the variables are not clear to you I can give the same example with the actual values but OUTPUT_FILE=the unix html file, YDATE is a formated date for yesterday as is Yesterday [different formats], ADDRESS is the recipient email address.

Best of luck.

Regards,

dl

[Geoff Wild]

Do you want it embedded or as an attachement?

I prefer attachements.

Download and install mpack:

http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Users/mpack-1.6/

Run like so:

/usr/local/bin/mpack -s "svr004 cfg2html" /opt/cfg2html/svr004.html gwild@mydomian.ca

Rgds...Geoff

[Marty Metras]

Attachments are easy.
I guess what I want is an embedded html email.

Marty

[Geoff Wild]

I think the only way to send embdded html is via Perl - you will need to write a script...

I did find this via google - that may help:

http://willmaster.com/possibilities/archives/wmp20020716001.shtml

There is an example cgi script...look at the "sub SendEmail" section...

Rgds...Geoff

[Geoff Wild]

Tested the following - it works:

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

It is quite a large script...

To send html embeded:

cat /path/to/somefile.html | sendEmail.pl -f from@email.address -t to@email.address -u "Your Subject"

The html file must start with

If sendmail isn't running as a daemon on the localhost, then modify the line in the script from localhost to your email server:

"server" => 'localhost', ## Default SMTP server


Rgds..Geoff

[Jean-Yves Picard · Accepted solution]

Hello,

a bit late, but maybe ...
mail should start with

To: auser@mycompany.com
CC: anotheruser
Subject: report
Content-Type: text/html
<- a blank line

...

then pipe to /usr/lib/sendmail -t

I didn't details sending file as attachement as you find it too easy ;-)

Jean-Yves

[Marty Metras]

Great Jean-Yves

It is easy after all.
I just add "Content-Type: text/html"
and a blank line to the top if the a HTML file and send it.
It is more involved with links and graphics but I am not planning any of that.

Thanks again.
Marty

[Geoff Wild]

Or, instead of adding to a file, just do this:

echo "To: you@yourdomain.com\nSubject: your subject\nContent-Type: text/html\n\n"`cat /path/to/somefile.html` | sendmail -t

Works like a charm :)

Rgds...Geoff