[Novalug] send html files using "mail" command

John Franklin franklin@elfie.org
Wed Jan 19 17:24:45 EST 2011


If the sendmail command is installed (meaning, if any mailer with sendmail compatibility is installed including exim and postfix), then you can use that to send e-mail:

alice@example:~$ sendmail bob@example.com
From: Alice <alice@example.org>
To: Bob <bob@example.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:05:18 -0500
Subject: Some HTML communication 
Content-type: text/html

<body>
<h1>An h1 tag</h1>
<p>A paragraph of text about nothing in particular.</p>
</body>
.


The format is to put all the headers up front, a blank line, and the body of the message.  Note the period by itself on the last line.

This e-mail will be sent to bob@example.com as shown in the command line, not the bob@example.org in the headers.

jf

On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Clif Flynt wrote:

> Any chance that the meta* tools are installed?
> 
> metasend is the original way to send mail with MIME headers, from
> back when MIME was MetaMail from AT&T Bell Labs (after it was Atomic Mail).
> 
> I find metasend by default on my SuSE box, but not my Centos or Ubuntu
> boxes.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:49:08PM +0100, Miguel González Castaños wrote:
>> As the subject says, I can't send html files using the mail command in 
>> Linux bash (neither mailx nor sendmail are installed)
>> 
>> mail mymail@myprovider.com -a "Content-type: text/html" <./output.html
>> mail: invalid option -- a
>> Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
>>             [-- sendmail-options ...]
>>        mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
>>        mail [-iInNv] [-u user]
>> 
>> Googling is not helping since is forwarding me to mailx or sendmail commands
> 
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