send a report in html format

**guif** · 11-27-2008

hi! i woult like to make a report, and send to my mail in html format.
I have this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

echo "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">"  > /root/file.html
echo "<html>" >> /root/file.html
echo "<head>" >> /root/file.html
echo "<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">" >> /root/file.html
#echo "<title></title>" >> /root/file.html
echo "<body>" >> /root/file.html
echo "<FONT FACE="verdana" SIZE="2">" >> /root/file.html

echo "SERVER:" `hostname` >> /root/file.html

echo "</font>" >> /root/file.html
echo "</body>" >> /root/file.html
echo "</html>" >> /root/file.html

echo "" | mail -s user_01@gmail.com < /root/file.html

why my browser don't put the text in the size and font correctly?
Are any solution for my case?

thanks!

**Rinkwraith** · 11-27-2008

Which browser?

BTW you haven't closed your head element. It *could* be the cause of the problem depending on the html renderer being used.

**guif** · 11-27-2008

for example gmail or Lotus,....

**Rinkwraith** · 11-27-2008

Lotus Notes is horrible for HTML emails but what you've got should probably work - still fix the head element though.

**Rinkwraith** · 11-27-2008

More thoughts, when we do marketing emails (often to Lotus Notes as that's what my corporation uses), we tend to have best results using HTML 4 with *inline* styles.

So you could try

Code:

echo "<body>" >> /root/file.html
echo "<p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px">" >> /root/file.html
echo "SERVER:" `hostname` >> /root/file.html
echo "</p>" >> /root/file.html
echo "</body>" >> /root/file.html

**guif** · 11-27-2008

If i put:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

echo "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">"  > /export/home/oper/prova.html
echo "<html>" >> /export/home/oper/prova.html
echo "<head>" >> /export/home/oper/prova.html
echo "<meta content="text/html"; charset="utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">" >> /export/home/oper/prova.html
echo "<p style=font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px>" >> /export/home/oper/prova.html

echo "SERVER:" `hostname` >> /export/home/oper/prova.html

echo "</p>" >> /export/home/oper/prova.html
echo "</body>" >> /export/home/oper/prova.html

echo "</body>" >> /export/home/oper/prova.html
echo "</html>" >> /export/home/oper/prova.html


echo "" | mail -s user_01@gmail.com < /export/home/oper/prova.html

the result in gmaill.com:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd>
<html>
<head>
<meta content=text/html; charset=utf-8 http-equiv=Content-Type>
<p style=font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px>
SERVER: MYSERVER
</p>
</body>
</body>
</html>

but my result should be only:

SERVER: MYSERVER

**burschik** · 11-27-2008

Please read this: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)

**Rinkwraith** · 11-27-2008

I don't use shell script but do you need to escape the "s so that they show up?

E.g. it should read
style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px"
meta content="text/html; charset=utf8"
etc.
- the quotes are important.

Also, you still need to close that head tag.
After outputing the meta element,
echo "</head>" >> /export/home/oper/prova.html

But if you're getting the fuill html source displayed like that then chances are the mail is not being sent with the correct content type headers etc.

The content type in the email header needs to be set to "text/html; charset="utf-8" to match the type listed in the HTML source.

I don't think you can do that with the mail command. You could try using sendmail instead - Linux, send html email from command line

**guif** · 11-27-2008

thanks for the links!

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