Question on mailx

Felix2511 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-23-2007

Hello there:

I want to send an e-mail from AIX using mailx.
I'm executing the following script (-> witch doesn't work's):

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#!/bin/sh

echo "<html><body><a href="http://www.myhomepage.com">Link</a></body></html>" >> LOG
sleep 5
! mailx -s "Test Mail HTML Link" mymail@myhomepage.com < LOG

# Return 0 for success, non-zero for errors

exit $RETURN_STATUS
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What i want to do is to send this mail with a link inside so that the receiver could click on that link wich opens Internetexplorer with www.myhomepage.com

Could someone give me a hint or tip on this issue?

Thank you very much in advance.

sysgate · #2 (**permalink**) 05-23-2007

HTML tags are correct. but you need to output it to "log.html" in order for tags to be recognized correctly, otherwise it's just a plaintext file. You may also consider including "Content-Type: text/html" in the header.

Felix2511 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-23-2007

Now i'm coding:

#!/bin/sh

echo "<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html Content-Disposition: inline charset=windows-1252"><body><a href="http://myhomepage.com">Mensaje</a></body></head></html>" >> "log.html"
sleep 5
! mailx -s "Test Mail HTML Link" myemail < "log.html"

# Return 0 for success, non-zero for errors

exit $RETURN_STATUS

But it still sends plaintext!!

Felix2511 · #4 (**permalink**) 05-23-2007

this works:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

export MAILTO="mymail@mail.com"
export SUBJECT="Test Mail"
export BODY="/test/log.html"
(
echo "To: $MAILTO"
echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
echo "Content-Type: text/html"
echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
cat $BODY
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail $MAILTO

exit

Thanks to all

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