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Old 02-09-2010
Bold Text In Email
Hello,

I email some info daily to my employees using a script. But they tend to overlook an important part so I wanted to bold that particular section. Everyone here uses outlook to receive their emails. I would like to know how to send an email to my employees with some parts in bold.
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Old 02-09-2010
Create an email through outlook that looks like what you want the users to see, and send it to your mail server.
Use vi to examine the mailbox. Use the body of the email to create a HTML template for your message.
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Old 02-11-2010
Can you please explain your current mechanism of sending emails, so we can give better advice ? Is it HMTL, how it's being constructed, how the users are reading the mail, what are their mail clients, etc.
General advice on how to bold a line in bash :
Code:
echo -e "\033[1mThis is ALL BOLD line\033[0m"

See attached png file for visual hint.
Bold Text In Email-boldpng
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Old 02-11-2010
I think sending ANSI escape sequences through email is even less standards compliant than sending HTML. Smilie Email's supposed to be raw text and nothing but raw text. But you can generally get away with sending HTML.
 
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