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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] Sending a HTML email from cli loses formatting. Post 302756073 by cognito on Tuesday 15th of January 2013 06:35:32 AM
Old 01-15-2013
[Solved] Sending a HTML email from cli loses formatting.
Hi,

I have a .sh file, to email a report of our backups from a linux machine. It looks like this (minus a few bits):

Code:
echo "HELO $host.$domain"
sleep 1
echo "mail from: vdrreport@$domain"
sleep 1
echo "rcpt to:$mailto"
sleep 1
echo "data"
sleep 1
echo "subject: $host VDR-Report $(date +"%Y.%m.%d %H:%M")"
sleep 1
echo "from: "vdrreport@$domain
sleep 1
echo "to:$mailto"
sleep 1
echo "Mime-Version: 1.0;"
sleep 1
echo "Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1";"
sleep 1
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit;"
sleep 1
sleep 1
echo "##### Backup overview ($succ successfull jobs) #####"
sleep 1
echo "<p> "
sleep 1
  if [ -f /root/oldbackup.out ]
    then
      cat grep "Task completed" /root/oldbackup.out | grep $today
    else
      echo No list for backups found!
  fi
sleep 1
echo "<p/>"
sleep 1
echo " "
sleep 1
echo "."
sleep 1
echo "QUIT"
) | telnet $smtphost.$domain 25

This sends a html email, but without any formatting for the log file that has been cat out.

##### Backup overview (57 successfull jobs) #####
1/11/2013 12:01:52 AM: Performing incremental back up of disk Productci/Productci-flat.vmdk 1/11/2013 12:07:26 AM: Removed snapshot_datarecovery_ 1/11/2013 12:07:26 AM: Task completed successfully 1/11/2013 12:07:26 AM: Completed: 5 files, 25.1 GB 1/11/2013 12:07:26 AM: Performance: 4585.0 MB/minute 1/11/2013 12:07:26 AM: Duration: 00:07:18 (00:01:43 idle/loading/preparing) 1/11/2013 12:01:07 AM: Performing incremental back up of disk tflcrowndev1/tflcrowndev1-000002-flat.vmdk 1/11/2013 12:09:21 AM: Removed snapshot_datarecovery_ 1/11/2013 12:09:21 AM: Task completed successfully

If i just send it as plain text, it appears fine:

Code:
11/28/2012 4:01:44 PM: Starting incremental integrity check
11/28/2012 4:04:10 PM: Task completed successfully

11/29/2012 4:24:35 PM: Starting incremental integrity check
11/29/2012 4:27:45 PM: Task completed successfully

Can i get my email to send as html and keep the same formatting as plain text?

Cheers.
Last edited by radoulov; 01-15-2013 at 10:19 AM.. Reason: Marked as solved.
 

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systemd-suspend.service

SYSTEMD-SUSPEND.SERVICE(8)				      systemd-suspend.service					SYSTEMD-SUSPEND.SERVICE(8)

NAME

       systemd-suspend.service, systemd-hibernate.service, systemd-hybrid-sleep.service, systemd-suspend-then-hibernate.service, systemd-sleep -
       System sleep state logic

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-suspend.service

       systemd-hibernate.service

       systemd-hybrid-sleep.service

       systemd-suspend-then-hibernate.service

       /lib/systemd/system-sleep

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-suspend.service is a system service that is pulled in by suspend.target and is responsible for the actual system suspend.
       Similarly, systemd-hibernate.service is pulled in by hibernate.target to execute the actual hibernation. Finally,
       systemd-hybrid-sleep.service is pulled in by hybrid-sleep.target to execute hybrid hibernation with system suspend and pulled in by
       suspend-then-hibernate.target to execute system suspend with a timeout that will activate hibernate later.

       Immediately before entering system suspend and/or hibernation systemd-suspend.service (and the other mentioned units, respectively) will
       run all executables in /lib/systemd/system-sleep/ and pass two arguments to them. The first argument will be "pre", the second either
       "suspend", "hibernate", "hybrid-sleep", or "suspend-then-hibernate" depending on the chosen action. Immediately after leaving system
       suspend and/or hibernation the same executables are run, but the first argument is now "post". All executables in this directory are
       executed in parallel, and execution of the action is not continued until all executables have finished.

       Note that scripts or binaries dropped in /lib/systemd/system-sleep/ are intended for local use only and should be considered hacks. If
       applications want to react to system suspend/hibernation and resume, they should rather use the Inhibitor interface[1].

       Note that systemd-suspend.service, systemd-hibernate.service, and systemd-hybrid-sleep.service systemd-suspend-then-hibernate.service
       should never be executed directly. Instead, trigger system sleep states with a command such as "systemctl suspend" or similar.

       Internally, this service will echo a string like "mem" into /sys/power/state, to trigger the actual system suspend. What exactly is written
       where can be configured in the "[Sleep]" section of /etc/systemd/sleep.conf or a sleep.conf.d file. See systemd-sleep.conf(5).

OPTIONS

       systemd-sleep understands the following commands:

       -h, --help
	   Print a short help text and exit.

       --version
	   Print a short version string and exit.

       suspend, hibernate, hybrid-sleep, suspend-then-hibernate
	   Suspend, hibernate, suspend then hibernate, or put the system to hybrid sleep.

SEE ALSO

       systemd-sleep.conf(5), systemd(1), systemctl(1), systemd.special(7), systemd-halt.service(8)

NOTES

	1. Inhibitor interface
	   https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit

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