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# 1  
Old 02-25-2015
Sending formatted email with sendmail question
Hi All,

Can anyone help with an email formatting question:

Im using the following example to try and send a formatted email:

Code:
outputFile="file.txt"  
(  
echo "From: oracle@inovis.com"
echo "To: john.dickinson@gxs.com"  
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"  
echo "Subject: Test Font"   
echo "Content-Type: text/html"
echo "<FONT FACE="COURIER NEW" SIZE="5"</FONT>"
cat $outputFile  
) | sendmail -t

The email is sent ok, but no matter how I try I cant get the right format, ie courier new and the right size.

Any ideas?

Thanks for any help.

jd
# 2  
Old 02-25-2015
It's unclear to me whether html will work in an email like that or not, but in any case, your html had incorrect syntax:

Code:
(  
echo "From: oracle@inovis.com"
echo "To: john.dickinson@gxs.com"  
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"  
echo "Subject: Test Font"   
echo "Content-Type: text/html"
echo "<FONT FACE='COURIER NEW' SIZE='5'>"
cat $outputFile  
echo "</FONT>" ) | sendmail -t

# 3  
Old 02-25-2015
Thanks very much.

That is much better, the size is working now.

However, Im finding that the conetnts of $outputFile is appearing all on one line, ie not with new lines. the content of $outputFile has several lines.

ie the email looks like this:

CURRENT TIME ------------------- 2015/02/25 10:25:53 IWRESOURCE_LOCK (RSRC NAME) AGT_NAME MACHINENAME NUM RSRC_TIME TIMEDIFFMIN ------------------------------------------------------- --------------- -------------------- ------ -------------------- ----------- High Radius - (Prod) - SFTP Inbound SFTP Inbound lsappp08 34 2015-02-25 10:22:53 3 WEICHERT SSN TO AP FTP Inbound FTP Inbound lsappp10.itlogon.com 36 2015-02-25 10:22:59 3 SFTP Inbound - Siemens to Sager (Test) SFTP Inbound lsappp03 32 2015-02-25 10:23:14 3 SFTP Inbound-LLBEAN(MEADOWCRAFT) SFTP Inbound lsappp10.itlogon.com 36 2015-02-25 10:23:15 3 FTP Inbound - Honda to Freudenberg FTP Inbound lsappp02 31 2015-02-25 10:24:02 2 RICOH EUROPE PLC-EDICOM SPAIN - PROD - SFTP Inbound SFTP Inbound lsappp10.itlogon.com 36 2015-02-25 10:24:27 2 SFTP Inbound - Direct Distribution - 945 Pull SFTP Inbound lsappp08 34 2015-02-25 10:24:41 2

How to get the content on a separate line as in the original file? I thorght courier new would do this.

Any ideas?
# 4  
Old 02-25-2015
HTML does that. Putting it in HTML tags has caused it to act like HTML.

If you want the HTML to treat your text as preformatted text, you should put it in preformatted text (<pre>) tags.

Code:
(  
echo "From: oracle@inovis.com"
echo "To: john.dickinson@gxs.com"  
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"  
echo "Subject: Test Font"   
echo "Content-Type: text/html"
echo "<FONT FACE='COURIER NEW' SIZE='5'><PRE>"
cat $outputFile  
echo "</PRE></FONT>" ) | sendmail -t

# 5  
Old 02-25-2015
perfect!
thank you so much :-)
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