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# 1  
Old 11-05-2008
Bold characters in mail
I sh,
I have bold characters in a file and I want to mail file to an ID.

$cat file
Incorrect or invalid external email IDs in TO and CC list for email_rules:

If I pass this file to mailx
$ cat file | mailx -s "hi" abc@xyz.com

What I get in mail is
Incorrect or invalid external email IDs in TO and CC list for email_rules:

I want to preserve these bold characeters.
Can someone help?
# 2  
Old 11-05-2008
The mail command cannot determine what the bold characters mean. Maybe you should send an email with the html bold signs.
# 3  
Old 11-05-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by chatwizrd
The mail command cannot determine what the bold characters mean. Maybe you should send an email with the html bold signs.

But <Ctrl V> is not understool by the unix file.
Here mail command is taking input from a file.
# 4  
Old 11-05-2008
What does ctrl v have to do with anything?
# 5  
Old 11-05-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by chatwizrd
What does ctrl v have to do with anything?
can you please let me know how are you suggesting to use html tags?
# 6  
Old 11-05-2008
Like:

Content-Type: text/html
<b>TEXT</b>

Might be other header info you have to pass I didnt test it.
# 7  
Old 11-05-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by chatwizrd
Like:

Content-Type: text/html
<b>TEXT</b>

Might be other header info you have to pass I didnt test it.
Sorry, I didnt get you. Do you want to print "<b>TEXT</b>" in the file?
Please note body of the mail is inputted from a file.
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