11-13-2007
This has been asked a number of times but basically there are two main forms of mail...
1. simple text
2. mime encoded html
unless you do something fancy, mailx will assume 1.
If you want colours, font attributes etc, then you need to send it as legal HTML and need to set the mime encoding to indicate such. This will then be illegable to people without HTML parsers in their mail clients.
If people are using small handhelds to receive these emails I advise against HTML, keep things simple.
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simplify
SIMPLIFY(1) General Commands Manual SIMPLIFY(1)
NAME
simplify - a script to simplify a MIME message
SYNOPSIS
simplify [args ...] < message > othermessage
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the simplify command. simplify is a Perl script to simplify a MIME message.
This script never loads the entire message into memory, but does dump it's entire contents to disk once.
OPTIONS
mime=no
Don't use MIME, no HTML mail allowed.
testing=yes
Run in testing mode (suppress randonmess)
saveall=yes
Save all attachments to files.
temp=/path/to/working/dir/
Defaults to /tmp.
url=http://box/path/
URL-prefix for printing paths to attachments
header=text...
Text preceding the attachment URL list.
textsig=/path/to/file
Text signature to append to text parts.
htmlsig=/path/to/file
HTML signature to append to HTML parts.
If "saveall" is yes, then the script will save all attachments to disk so people can access their contents later. If an URL is specified
then that automatically implies "saveall=yes". Without this, the default behavior is to only save text and html parts, and delete them and
all working directories when the script is finished.
SEE ALSO
sanitizer(1). More info on configuration: /usr/share/doc/sanitizer/sanitizer.html
AUTHOR
Bjarni R. Einarsson <bre@klaki.net>
This manual page was written by Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@agi.as> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
May 14, 2003 SIMPLIFY(1)