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08-30-2016

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Strange Issue with sendmail

more works.sh

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

{
        print "From: reportgenerator@myserver.com"
        print "To: randomguy@myfirm.com"
        print "MIME-Version: 1.0"
        print "Content-Type: text/html"
        print "Subject: Disk Report"
        print "<body>"
        print "<table border=1>"
        print "<tr>"
        print "<th bgcolor=#D7D3D3>Disk</th>"
        print "<th bgcolor=#D7D3D3>Growth</th>"
        print "</tr>"
        print "</table>"
        print "<p>Today's by: 999,999</p>"
        print "</body>"
        print "</html>"
} | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t

I run works.sh and i see the table in my email body as expected.

but more fails.sh

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

{
        print "From: reportgenerator@myserver.com"
        print "To: randomguy@myfirm.com"
        print "MIME-Version: 1.0"
        print "Content-Type: text/html"
        print "Subject: Disk Report"
        print "<body>"
        print "<table border=1>"
        print "<tr>"
        print "<th bgcolor=#D3D3D3>Disk</th>"
        print "<th bgcolor=#D3D3D3>Growth Monthly</th>"
        print "</tr>"
        print "</table>"
        print "</body>"
        print "</html>"
} | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t

Does not work as expected. I get email but the HTML Table does not show up ONLY text shows.

The only difference i see if it works when this line is added to the script

print "<p>Today's report shows progress by: 999,999</p>" and fails when removed.

Can you please try to run both of the scripts and see it for yourself. Also, help explain and fix ?

And if both work for you .. still do let me know so we can debug accordingly.

Last edited by mohtashims; 08-30-2016 at 07:21 PM..

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print

print(1)							   User Commands							  print(1)

NAME

       print - shell built-in function to output characters to the screen or window

SYNOPSIS

   ksh
       print [ -Rnprsu [n]] [arg...]

DESCRIPTION

   ksh
       The shell output mechanism. With no flags or with flag - or -, the arguments are printed on standard output as described by echo(1).

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -n	       suppresses new-line from being added to the output.

       -R

       -r	       (raw  mode) ignore the escape conventions of echo. The -R option will print all subsequent arguments and options other than
		       -n.

       -p	       causes the arguments to be written onto the pipe of the process spawned with |& instead of standard output.

       -s	       causes the arguments to be written onto the history file instead of standard output.

       -u [ n ]        flag can be used to specify a one digit file descriptor unit number n on which the output will be placed. The default is 1.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful operation.

       >0	Output file is not open for writing.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       echo(1), ksh(1), attributes(5)

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