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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users display HTML text in body using unix mailX ???? Post 302219615 by lyradsr on Tuesday 29th of July 2008 04:13:30 PM
Old 07-29-2008
Computer mailx and html formatted email

It is actually possible, and easy to send email in html format.
Here is an example perl script to do just that.

Quote:
#!/usr/bin/perl

########################
# Variables
########################
$mail="/usr/lib/sendmail -t"; # Path to the sendmail program and switches
$mail="/usr/bin/mailx -t"; # Path to the mailx program and switches

$temp="/home/cager/htmlcode"; #<---- File and Path to the HTML
$rcpt="returntome\@xxxx.com"; #<----- The return to email address
$users ="sendtome\@xxxx.com"; #<---- List of "to" email addresses
$ccusers= ""; #<---- List of Cc'd email addresses
$bccusers=""; #<---- List of Bcc'd email addresses
$subject="Get off the web and work"; #<----Title of the email

########################
# Create the Email Pipe
########################
open(MAIL, "| $mail") or die "Can not access $mail $!\n";

########################
# Open the HTML
########################
open(TEMP, "$temp") or die "Can not open $temp $!\n";

########################
# Send the html to the Pipe
########################
print MAIL "From: $rcpt\n";
print MAIL "To: $users\n";
print MAIL "Cc: $ccusers\n";
print MAIL "Bcc: $bccusers\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n";
print MAIL "Content-Type: text/html;\n";

while (<TEMP>) { #<---- insert the html into the body of the email
print MAIL; #<---- send the email
}
close (TEMP);
close (MAIL);
Give that a shot.
Smilie
 

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SMRSH(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  SMRSH(8)

NAME
smrsh - restricted shell for sendmail SYNOPSIS
smrsh -c command DESCRIPTION
The smrsh program is intended as a replacement for sh for use in the ``prog'' mailer in sendmail(8) configuration files. It sharply limits the commands that can be run using the ``|program'' syntax of sendmail in order to improve the over all security of your system. Briefly, even if a ``bad guy'' can get sendmail to run a program without going through an alias or forward file, smrsh limits the set of programs that he or she can execute. Briefly, smrsh limits programs to be in a single directory, by default /usr/adm/sm.bin, allowing the system administrator to choose the set of acceptable commands, and to the shell builtin commands ``exec'', ``exit'', and ``echo''. It also rejects any commands with the charac- ters ``', `<', `>', `;', `$', `(', `)', ` ' (carriage return), or ` ' (newline) on the command line to prevent ``end run'' attacks. It allows ``||'' and ``&&'' to enable commands like: ``"|exec /usr/local/bin/filter || exit 75"'' Initial pathnames on programs are stripped, so forwarding to ``/usr/ucb/vacation'', ``/usr/bin/vacation'', ``/home/server/mydir/bin/vaca- tion'', and ``vacation'' all actually forward to ``/usr/adm/sm.bin/vacation''. System administrators should be conservative about populating the sm.bin directory. For example, a reasonable additions is vacation(1), and the like. No matter how brow-beaten you may be, never include any shell or shell-like program (such as perl(1)) in the sm.bin direc- tory. Note that this does not restrict the use of shell or perl scripts in the sm.bin directory (using the ``#!'' syntax); it simply dis- allows execution of arbitrary programs. Also, including mail filtering programs such as procmail(1) is a very bad idea. procmail(1) allows users to run arbitrary programs in their procmailrc(5). COMPILATION
Compilation should be trivial on most systems. You may need to use -DSMRSH_PATH="path" to adjust the default search path (defaults to ``/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb'') and/or -DSMRSH_CMDDIR="dir" to change the default program directory (defaults to ``/usr/adm/sm.bin''). FILES
/usr/adm/sm.bin - default directory for restricted programs on most OSs /var/adm/sm.bin - directory for restricted programs on HP UX and Solaris /usr/libexec/sm.bin - directory for restricted programs on FreeBSD (>= 3.3) and DragonFly BSD SEE ALSO
sendmail(8) $Date: 2004/08/06 03:55:35 $ SMRSH(8)
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