Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have the following 'atd' batch script to send mail to a windows (outlook) system:

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LESSOPEN=\|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh\ %s; export LESSOPEN
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1; export G_BROKEN_FILENAMES
cd /root/bin || {
echo 'Execution directory inaccessible' >&2
exit 1
}
${SHELL:-/bin/sh} << 'marcinDELIMITER152378e7'
echo -en "

My text justified
other txt justied

" | /usr/bin/env smtp=192.168.11.11 MAILRC=/dev/null nail -r myuser1@mydom -s "my subject" myuser2@mydom

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The mail was sent successfully but windows see the text without the CR character.. so there is not any justification..
I tryed to add "\r\n" or "\\\r\\\n" to the end of each line.. without any changes.
Under linux I have not any problem: I see the justified text as I want... but not under windows..

I also tryed to send an html+css ("align-text: justify") mail but the command nail (mailx) doesnt support the html format.. that mean I cant add any "content-type: html/text" header to the mail..

Any idea ??
thanks
luigi

hi,

think about saving the body of the message in a file, converting that file with unix2dos, and finally using the content of the file as input for mail.

see ya
fra

maybe I cant send mail with "\r\n" end line.. infact I read on the man:

Mailx expects input text to be in Unix format, with lines separated by newline (^J, \n) characters only. Non-Unix text files that use carriage return (^M, \r) characters in addition will be treated as binary
data; to send such files as text, strip these characters e. g. by

tr -d '\015' <input | mailx . . .

or fix the tools that generate them.


:-(

After reading frappa's post and ensuring that the mail body starts out in unix text format, I'd expect the pipeline to be in the order "ux2dos"-"uuencode"-"mail program". Too difficult to follow your script.

There is a basic problem with Microsoft Outlook. The default changed (in 2003 I think) such that this box is checked in error:
Tools/Options/Preferences/E-mail options/"Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages"
Uncheck the box.


Btw. I don't understand your script fragments at all (much too obfuscated). Only going by the symptoms.