Linux – Send HTML email from shell CLI

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I am running the cron job where there is html formatted output.
I want to send that output my email address in html format.

Is there any way to do that

php  /home/bla/bla_bla.php | mail -s "Bla Bla"  -s "bla@bla.com"

Best Answer

You might want to take a look at mime-construct. It's handy for just this kind of thing. I use it to send a generated HTML doc as part of a daily cronjob like so:

/usr/bin/mime-construct --to "foo@bar.com" --subject "My daily html foo" --multipart multipart/alternative --type text/html --file htmlfiletosend.html

If you don't care about the messages being multipart, you can drop that portion. It can also take the html via stdin like so:

php your_script.php | mime-construct --to "foo@bar.com" --subject "Foo Report" --type text/html --file -

I don't know what distro you're using, but this is available in the main repositories for Debian and Ubuntu, I would imagine RHEL and derivatives likely have it too.

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Cron – How to Modify a Cronjob Email Subject

On my systems (most Debian) all output, from a script/program called as a crontab-entry, is sent by email to the account@localhost who initiated the cron. These emails have a subject like yours.

If you want to receive an email, write a script that has no output on its own. But instead put all output in a textfile.

And with

mail -s 'your subject' adress@where < textfile

you receive it the way you want.

Cron – Send simple HTML email from command line

If you have a sufficiently recent version of mutt I believe you can do something like this.

mutt -e 'set content_type="text/html"' -a file.csv user@example.org -s "subject" < index.html

index.html will be the html body of your message.

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