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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help in sending html mail with attachment Post 302933063 by gandolf989 on Tuesday 27th of January 2015 08:45:02 AM
Old 01-27-2015
Although it hasn't been updated in awhile, I have had good luck sending emails with Perl and the MIME::Lite package.

MIME::Lite - search.cpan.org

It is capable of sending UTF8 text, and should more than handle sending html. In the past I have used mpack and uuencode to send attachments through Unix. But the Perl libraries work much better and produce code that is easier to read. There should be a number of scripts available that you can download and run, mostly as is.

If you have static HTML that you need to include you can generate that though the qq{} structure. It allows multiple lines in a single scalar.

Code:
my $email_body = 
qq{ From: Someone <$MAILFROM>"
To: Someone <${MAILTO}>"
Subject:' $SUBJECT
MIME-Version: 1.0'
Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; '
 BOUNDARY='\"$BOUNDARY\"

 This message is in MIME format. But if you can see this,'
 you aren't using a MIME aware mail program. You shouldn't "
 have too many problems because this message is entirely in'
 ASCII and is designed to be somewhat readable with old '
 mail software.'

--${BOUNDARY}"
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII'

cat $CONTENT


--${BOUNDARY}"
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name='${CONTENT}
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='${CONTENT_F}

cat ${CONTENT}

--${BOUNDARY}--"
};

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

mlmmj-send

mlmmj-send(1)						      General Commands Manual						     mlmmj-send(1)

NAME

       mlmmj-send - send mail to a mailinglist or similar

SYNOPSIS

       mlmmj-send [-L /path/to/list | -l listctrl] -m /path/to/mail [-a] [-D] [-F] [-h] [-o] [-r] [-R] [-s] [-T] [-V]

       -a: Don't archive the mail

       -D: Don't delete the mail after it's sent

       -F: What to use as MAIL FROM:

       -h: This help

       -l: List control variable.

       -L: Full path to list directory

       -m: Full path to mail file

       -o: Address to omit from distribution (normal mail only)

       -r: Relayhost IP address (defaults to 127.0.0.1)

       -R: What to use as Reply-To: header

       -s: Subscribers file name

       -T: What to use as RCPT TO:

       -V: Print version

DESCRIPTION

       This binary is used to send all kinds of mail to mlmmj managed mailinglists, but can potentially be used standalone for sending mails.

       The only option that is not self explanatory is the -l list control option:

	      '1' means 'send a single mail'

	      This is used together with -F and -T to send one mail to one recipient.

	      '2' means 'mail to moderators'

	      Used for sending mails to the moderators of a list.

	      '3' means 'resend failed list mail'

	      '4' means 'send to file with recipients'

	      '5' means 'bounceprobe'

	      '6' means 'single listmail to single recipient'

BUGS

       This  manual page is very scarce documentation of the mlmmj-send binary. The reason for this is that it's really not supposed to be used by
       any human, but only supposed to be invoked from other mlmmj binaries. So in case more documentation is needed, please read the source.

AUTHORS

       This manual page was written by the following persons:

       Soren Boll Overgaard <boll@debian.org> (based on html2man output)

       Mads Martin Jorgensen <mmj@mmj.dk>

mlmmj-send							   January 2010 						     mlmmj-send(1)
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