Sending HTML email via mailx

grao75 · 11-07-2005, 02:49 PM

Hi!

I've an HTML document that I would like to send via mailx or any other unix mail utility. What needs to be done on to ensure that the the mail is displayed with the HTML highlighting rather just displaying the HTML code?

I don't want to send this file as an attachment. I want it to be in the body of the message. I tried mutt & metamail with no luck.

cat file.html | mailx joe@mydomain.com

Thanks in advance!

-Joe

druuna · 11-08-2005, 10:48 AM

Hi,

Although I don't like html mail, I've had a simular problem (sun box to windows outlook).

I solved it by including the content type and boundry settings in the file that's being piped to mailx.

This 'html.file' will show as html (in outlook, cannot test it with other html compliant mailreaders):

Code:

From: some.user@other.machine
Subject: Test
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
        boundary="----_=_NextPart_000_01C5B90C.9F15F690"

------_=_NextPart_000_01C5B90C.9F15F690
Content-Type: text/html;
        charset="iso-8859-1"

<!DOCTYPE html PUBliC "-//W3C//DTD html 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
  </head>
  <body>
    <div>
      <b>
Testing 1 2 3.
     </b><br>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

The first From is used if your reply adress needs to differ from the one that's automatically included. Usage is like you showed (cat file | nailx user@some.machine).

Hope this helps.