Weird truncating of HTML in SENDMAIL script

joe98888 · 06-11-2012, 03:31 PM

Greetings! I wrote a script to send email with attachment using SENDMAIL. I'm using

MAILTEXT=/tmp/t_tmp.$$

and echoing everything I need included in the body of the email. It's HTML-- "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

The script executes and the email is received but seeing weird truncation.

This EXCERPT from script...
</style></head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>
<p class=MsoNormal>Please find the attached overhead summary report for period $periodYY.</p>" >> ${MAILTEXT}

BECOMES this in source of email received...
</style></head>
<body lang=-US link=ue vlink=rple>
<p class=oNormal>Please find the attached overhead summary report for period Test Sub.</p>

It appears the finished output is dropping the first two characters following any equal signs in the HTML... link=blue becomse link=ue, MsoNormal becomes oNormal, etc. ??

Any ideas why this is occurring?

pan64 · 06-12-2012, 08:10 AM

probably a filter?

wpeckham · 06-12-2012, 09:49 AM

1. I am less than sympathetic because I HATE HTML in email.
2. Does your script construct the text as stings and push it directly, or build a file and pipe it?
3. Are you using the sendmail agent directly instead of one of the programs that manages the interface for you? (Mutt, mail, mailx, elm, pine, etc: they all have ways to run automated for scripting and filter/send intelligently, even use attachments).