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Old 08-07-2012
Question urgent: Not able to send the html formatted message from mailx
HTML Code:
<html>
<body style=background-color:AliceBlue>
<p>Hi,<pre>please check the connectivity status of the server. <pre>
And find the server log file for more details. </p>
<h1><font size="4">SERVER <font color="red">111.111.11.1</font> IS NOT AVAILABLE IN ONLINE</font></h1>
<font color="red" size="2"><b>NOTE:Please dont reply to this mail , it is system generated mail!</b></font>
</p>
</body>
</html>
I am trying to setup the auto generated mail, from the unix system to all the used, but only plain text mail i am getting, is there any other utility other then mailx,becuase mailx not supporting html mail formate.
Please help on this..
# 2  
Old 08-07-2012
try sendmail

Code:
 
(
        echo "From: abc@abc.com" 
        echo "To: abc@abc.com"
        echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
        echo "Subject: This is Test Mail"
        echo "Content-Type: text/html"
        cat /path/to/htmlfile
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t

# 3  
Old 08-07-2012
Question
Sendmail package is not available in my system, can help with mailx,or mutt,mail...
those will be help full
# 4  
Old 08-07-2012
Code:
 
mutt -e "set content_type=text/html" abc@abc.com -s "subject" < test.html

# 5  
Old 08-07-2012
Data I am getting the fallowing error while executing and mail still coming in plain text formate
Quote:
Error in command line: content_type=text/html: unknown command
# 6  
Old 08-07-2012
its because of your mutt is old version
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