Very Computer

Hi,

I'm extremely rusty on UNIX, and am looking for help on sending HTML mail
via SMTP, using mail or Mail.  Could somebody send me a commandline, please?
Specifically:

--how to specify recipient
--how to specify subject
--how to set content-type to HTML
--how to 'attach a file' a la most Windows mail programs

I'm on System V, Release 4

Thanx

--A

Please do everyone a favour: don't send any HTML emails.

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Rich,

Quote:

> Please do everyone a favour: don't send any HTML emails.

<<<

It's internal-use-only, and IMO it's justified.

--A

If you're using sol7 or sol8 have a look at the manual pages of mailx I
think it can do the job for you.
We use it extensively for guarding all kinds of serverprocesses and it works
reliable.

Martien.

Quote:> Hi,

> I'm extremely rusty on UNIX, and am looking for help on sending HTML mail
> via SMTP, using mail or Mail.  Could somebody send me a commandline,
please?
> Specifically:

> --how to specify recipient
> --how to specify subject
> --how to set content-type to HTML
> --how to 'attach a file' a la most Windows mail programs

> I'm on System V, Release 4

> Thanx

> --A

Martien,

Thanx for the post, but it seems mailx doesn't allow one to set 'content
type' headers.  At least that's what the following post said:

http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/1997.01/msg00588.html

--A

Solaris doesn't come with a command-line mail program that can do
attachments the right way.  The only thing you can do with standard
Unix utilities is use uuencode, which is really old and problematic.
Instead, you should use MIME for e-mail attachments.

The best thing to do is to download a third-party program that allows
you to, from the command line, send mails with attachments.  One
program that allows that is "mutt".  See http://www.veryComputer.com/

By the way, if you have to send HTML via e-mail, it is best to allow
the recipient the option to request that future e-mails be in plain
text only.  I don't know specifics, but I believe there are some
programs that will let you render HTML to plain text, so if you do it
right, you won't have to compose two separate versions of every
message.

  - Logan
--
"Our grandkids love that we get Roadrunner and digital cable."
(Adverti*t for Time Warner cable TV and internet access, July 2001)

http://www3.shore.net/~kylet/unix-att.html

-greg

Logan,

Thanx fotr the input and the blurb on mutt.  However another respondent
(somebody+usenet...) has suggested an alternative using sendmail.

--A

Greg,

Thank you **VERY** much.

--A

Yeah, you can do that, it's just that it's more work and if you do
it yourself, you're more likely to make mistakes that will cause
problems with others' mail clients than if you use a solution that
has already been debugged.

And mutt is easy to compile.  It's just a "./configure ; make install"
kind of thing, and the whole process shouldn't take more than 2 minutes
if you're familiar with that kind of install (and if you have a pretty
fast CPU).

  - Logan
--
"Our grandkids love that we get Roadrunner and digital cable."
(Adverti*t for Time Warner cable TV and internet access, July 2001)