How to send HTML email using linux command line

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How to send HTML email using linux command line

I need to send an html email. I have only the linux command and the mail command.

Currently used:

echo "To: address@example.com" > /var/www/report.csv echo "Subject: Subject" >> /var/www/report.csv echo "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"us-ascii\"" >> /var/www/report.csv echo "<html>" >> /var/www/report.csv mysql -u ***** -p***** -H -e "select * from users LIMIT 20" dev >> /var/www/report.csv echo "</html>" >> /var/www/report.csv mail -s "Built notification" address@example.com < /var/www/report.csv

But in my mail agent I only get text / text.

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Oleh Herych Apr 07 '10 at 10:53 on

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Dude · Answer 1 · 2011-04-28 16:51

This worked for me:

 echo "<b>HTML Message goes here</b>" | mail -s "$(echo -e "This is the subject\nContent-Type: text/html")" foo@example.com

Ole Tange · Answer 2 · 2012-09-04 11:18

My version of mail does not have --append and is too smart for echo -e \n -trick (it just replaces \ n with a space). However, it has -a :

 mail -a "Content-type: text/html" -s "Built notification" address@example.com < /var/www/report.html

Eric Leschinski · Answer 3 · 2012-12-13 04:37

Create a tmp.html file and put the following line in it:

 <b>my bold message</b>

Then paste all of this into the command line: (with bracket and all).

 ( echo To: youremail@blah.com echo From: el@defiant.com echo "Content-Type: text/html; " echo Subject: a logfile echo cat tmp.html ) | sendmail -t

Mail will be sent. And the message appeared as bold, and not with <b> tags.

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How to send html email using bash sendmail "?

Marc B · Answer 4 · 2010-04-07 22:17

The problem is that when redirecting a file to "mail" it is used only for the message body. All the headers that you insert into the file will be sent to the body.

Try:

 mail --append="Content-type: text/html" -s "Built notification" address@example.com < /var/www/report.csv

- append allows you to add arbitrary headers to the mail, where you must specify the type of content and content. There is no need to embed the To and Subject headers in your file or specify them using --append, since you implicitly install them on the command line (-s is the theme and the @. Com example automatically becomes To ).

jamesnotjim · Answer 5 · 2014-08-19 19:21

On OS X (10.9.4), cat works, and it's easier if your email is already in the file:

 cat email_template.html | mail -s "$(echo -e "Test\nContent-Type: text/html")" karl@marx.com

loentar · Answer 6 · 2014-09-17 07:01

With heirloom-mailx, you can change the sendmail program to your hook script, replace the headers there, and then use sendmail.

script I use ( ~/bin/sendmail-hook ):

 #!/bin/bash sed '1,/^$/{ s,^\(Content-Type: \).*$,\1text/html; charset=utf-8,g s,^\(Content-Transfer-Encoding: \).*$,\18bit,g }' | sendmail $@

This script changes the values in the mail header as follows:

Content-Type: to text/html; charset=utf-8 text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: up to 8bit (not sure if this is really necessary).

To send an HTML email address:

 mail -Ssendmail='~/bin/sendmail-hook' \ -s "Built notification" address@example.com < /var/www/report.csv

ghostdog74 · Answer 7 · 2010-04-07 10:56

you should use add mode redirection instead of >

Magge · Answer 8 · 2012-03-27 07:57

A very old question, however, it occupies a high place when I asked a question about it.

Find the answer here:

Sending HTML using shell script

Muc · Answer 9 · 2017-11-17 13:11

I found a very simple solution: add the -aContent-Type: text / html modifier to the mail command.

In your case, it will be:

 mail -aContent-Type:text/html -s "Built notification" address@example.com < /var/www/report.csv

Simone Margaritelli · Answer 10 · 2010-04-07 10:59

Try:

 echo "To: address@example.com" > /var/www/report.csv echo "Subject: Subject" >> /var/www/report.csv echo "MIME-Version: 1.0" >> /var/www/report.csv echo "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"us-ascii\"" >> /var/www/report.csv echo "Content-Disposition: inline" >> /var/www/report.csv echo "<html>" >> /var/www/report.csv mysql -u ***** -p***** -H -e "select * from users LIMIT 20" dev >> /var/www/report.csv echo "</html>" >> /var/www/report.csv mail -s "Built notification" address@example.com < /var/www/report.csv

Cromax · Answer 11 · 2017-02-16 05:51

I struggled with a similar problem (with mail) in one of my git post_receive hooks, and finally I found out that sendmail really works better for this kind of thing, especially if you know a little bit about how emails are (and it seems you know). I know that this answer comes very late, but perhaps it will be useful to others. I used the heredoc operator and used a function to expand the variables, so it can also run inline scripts. Just check this (bash script):

 #!/bin/bash recipients=( 'john@example.com' 'marry@not-so-an.example.com' # 'naah@not.this.one' ); sender='highly-automated-reporter@example.com'; subject='Oh, who really cares, seriously...'; sendmail -t <<-MAIL From: ${sender} `for r in "${recipients[@]}"; do echo "To: ${r}"; done;` Subject: ${subject} Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <html><head><meta charset="UTF-8"/></head> <body><p>Ladies and gents, here comes the report!</p> <pre>`mysql -u ***** -p***** -H -e "SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 20"`</pre> </body></html> MAIL

Note the backlinks in the MAIL part to generate some output and remember that the <<- operator breaks only tabs (not spaces) from the beginning of lines, so copying will not work in this case (you need to replace the indents with the corresponding tabs). Or use the << operator and do not indent. Hope this helps someone. Of course, you can use backticks outside the o MAIL part and save the output in some kind of variable that you can later use in the MAIL part to taste and readability. And I know #!/bin/bash does not always work on every system.

Kumar Abhirup · Answer 12 · 2019-04-02 15:46

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