I heard questions from more than one person in my team on how to send emails with html contents.
I have written a small test program and it is working fine in HP-UX systems. May be with little or no modifications it works in other Unix variants. The trick is to use sendmail program and not mailx. Also you need to add necessary MIME information in the header.
Here is the script if you are interested
You might have noticed that you could masquerade. (I mean if I wish I can send email with sender ‘s name with our president name)
#!/usr/bin/ksh
# Script to send html email
# Written by Madhu
FROM="madhu@tarikida.com"
TO="madhu@tarikida.com"
SUBJECT="This email has html contents"
CONTENTS="/home/madhu/scripts/mail_text.html"
HEADER="From: ${FROM} \
\nTo: ${TO} \
\nSubject: \"$SUBJECT\" \
\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii \
\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit \
\nMIME-Version: 1.0"
#echo $HEADER;
( echo $HEADER; cat $CONTENTS ) | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
