text formatting

[lux11]

I'm trying to preserve the format of a simple text message that gets sent via sendEmail. Here's an example of the message:

TOPIC !...LINE 1 of message

TOPIC 2...LINE 2 of message

etc.

The beginnings of new lines, indentations, other formatting are lost when the text is sent. I may be asking too much of sendEmail but I wonder if someone can advise on this.

Thanks,

Lux

[atreyu]

Hey Lux,

First off, thanks for pointing out this cool utility. I've never heard of it before.

I got it to work, complete with tabs, indents, etc. in my message. Here's what I did to send the test email:

#!/bin/bash
sendEmail='/usr/local/bin/sendEmail'
toEmail='me@myEmail.com'
fromEmail=$toEmail
subject='test'
body='  This line starts with a tab

Above is a blank line.
  This line is indented two spaces      <-tab.
'
smtpServer='my.smtp.server'
smtpPort=25
smtpUser='mySmtpUser'
smtpPass='mySmtpPass'

printf "Sending email..."
out=$($sendEmail -v -t $toEmail -f $fromEmail -u $subject -m "$body" -s $smtpServer:$smtpPort -o username=$smtpUser -o password=$smtpPass 2>&1)
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo OK
else
  echo FAILED
  printf "$out\n"
  exit 1
fi

exit 0

Perhaps on the client side, the email program is stripping the formatting?

[lux11]

Hi. Thanks for the reply. When I looked at your example I realized the problem was with the way I was inserting the message into the sendMail utility. Your example uses
-m "$body"
but I was complicating things by using
-m `cat $body`
which was evidently stripping out the formatting. Your way works. What a simple fix ! Thanks again.
lux11