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# 1  
Old 07-26-2013
Code Sending mail from UNIX in courier font
Need assistance . I have a cvs file which i changed to html file but when i try to send mail to outlook its indent goes wrong. any idea is appreciated .

below are some commands i tried using

Converting csv to html
Code:
#!/bin/sh
nawk 'BEGIN{
FS=","
print  "MIME-Version: 1.0"
print  "Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii""
print  "Content-Disposition: inline"
print  "<HTML>"
print  "<BODY>"
}
 {
print  "<P>"
print  "<FONT SIZE="5" FACE="Courier">"
printf "<TR>"
for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)
printf "%s", $i
print "</TR>"
print "</FONT>"
print  "<P>"
 }
END{
print "</BODY></HTML>"
 }
' TempTwo > file1.html

Code:
uuencode file.html file.html|mailx -s "<subject>" sample@mail.xom
cat file.html | mailx -s "<subject>" sample@mail.xom

Code:
Daily Temp           Temperature      |  Degree Day
Forecast Date  Max Dev Min Dev Avg Dev HDD NDD CDD NDD
Today  Jul 23   85  -6  72   2  79  -2   0   0  14  16
       Jul 24   87  -4  73   3  80  -1   0   0  15  16
       Jul 25   89  -2  71   1  80  -1   0   0  15  16

After mail was sent

Code:
Daily Temp           Temperature      |  Degree Day
Forecast Date  Max Dev Min Dev Avg Dev HDD NDD CDD NDD
Today    Jul 23   85  -6   72   2    79  -2    0     0    14   16
            Jul 24   87  -4   73   3    80  -1    0     0    15   16
            Jul 25   89  -2   71   1    80  -1    0     0    15   16

# 2  
Old 07-26-2013
Use HTML TABLE to format it better. Also no need to create a temporary file, just pipe it to sendmail instead:
Code:
nawk -F, '
        BEGIN {
                print "To: sample@mail.xom"
                print "Subject: Subject"
                print "MIME-Version: 1.0"
                print "Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii"
                print "Content-Disposition: inline"
                print "<HTML>"
                print "<BODY>"
                print "<TABLE BORDER=0>"
        }
        {
                printf "<TR>"
                for( i = 1; i <= NF; i++ )
                        print "<TD><FONT FACE=Courier SIZE=5>" $i "</FONT></TD>"
                print "</TR>"
        }
        END {
                print "</TABLE>"
                print "</BODY>"
                print "</HTML>"
        }
' TempTwo | /path/sendmail -t

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ajayram_arya
# 3  
Old 07-26-2013
Or, perhaps, don't use <table> or <tr> and simply wrap the data in <pre> to preserve formatting.

Regards,
Alister
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# 4  
Old 07-26-2013
Thank you very much Yodi . Outlook still doent indent properly

Do you know of any changes i need to make to the outlook to get the result.

Appreciate your time.

---------- Post updated at 01:41 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:32 PM ----------

Alister <pre> doesnt help .
# 5  
Old 07-26-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by ajayram_arya
Outlook still doent indent properly

Do you know of any changes i need to make to the outlook to get the result.
I'm not sure exactly how you want your data to look like!

I would suggest you to try the ALIGN attribute supported by TD tag to specify the required alignment:
Code:
print "<TD ALIGN=LEFT><FONT FACE=Courier SIZE=5>" $i "</FONT></TD>"

The ALIGN attribute can have below values:
Code:
left
right
center
justify
char

# 6  
Old 07-26-2013
When you copy the below unix data and paste it in outlook email the format changes . is there any way that what ever the data that is on unix it displays exactly on outlook . .

Code:
Forecast Date  Max Dev Min Dev Avg Dev HDD NDD CDD NDD
Today  Jul 23   87  -3  72   2  80   0   0   0  15  15
       Jul 24   86  -4  72   2  79  -1   0   0  14  15
       Jul 25   87  -3  67  -3  77  -3   0   0  12  15
       Jul 26   89  -1  69  -1  79  -1   0   0  14  15

# 7  
Old 07-26-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by ajayram_arya
Thank you very much Yodi . Outlook still doent indent properly
Outlook is infamous for ignoring formatting and doing whatever it pleases. It's not unheard of to resort to .txt attachments to preserve it.
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