Shell Programming and Scripting

The requirement is to send a report from an UNIX server. I have a list of data to be shown on the report, say from database. I am using sendexchange to send mail and it always send in plain text fromat and the data displayed are not aligned properly. I have seperated all the columns with fixed width but even then I am not getting a proper alignment in the data

Here it isAny suggestions???

To make things line up, you'll need to ensure that the font used when reading your message is a fixed-width font. I don't know if you can specify what font will be used to read your message if you're not sending rich text or html. You could add a note at the start of your message saying that to see table data properly formatted, it must be viewed with a fixed width font (such as courier).

@Don: Thanks for the input!

Is there some way to change the format of the mail to "Text/html" or "rich text"???

I don't think you can just do it in the text of your message through mailx since you have to modify the message header to set the mime type of the contents. You could do it with sendmail. I've never worked with sendexchange, but the man page for it on your system may explain how to provide a mimetype of text/richtext or html for the messages you send through it.

Sorry,
Don

This is what I do to specify content type and email a HTML file in HP-UX using mailx

Code:

cat email_body.html | mailx -m -s "Email Subject 
Content-type: text/html" user@domain.com

Did you miss something there?? I expected that "Email Subject Content-type: text/html" would be on the subject line.

And that's what I got

That is not correct. You have to put the Content-type: text/html in next line as I posted, this is to distinguish between email subject and mime header.