Bash: Sending HTML with an attached file?

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I'm looking for a way to send an HTML email from bash with an attached file. I've tried the following line, but it doesn't work 100%. The below line sends an HTML email, but there is no attached file:

( cat body.html ; uuencode in-attachfile.txt out-attachfile.txt ) | mail -s "$(echo -e "my subject\nContent-Type: text/html")" [email protected]

If I remove the Content-Type: text/html to indicate this is an HTML email then the attachment works:

( cat body.html ; uuencode in-attachfile.txt out-attachfile.txt ) | mail -s "$(echo -e "my subject")" [email protected]

How can I have both?

Thank you

Dennis Williamson · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-07 09:32:16Z

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Try this:

( cat body.html; uuencode in-attachfile.txt out-attachfile.txt ) | mail -s "my subject" -a "Content-Type: text/html" [email protected]

You may want to send the attachment using MIME (via mutt, for example). See this for more information.

answered May 7, 2012 at 9:32

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thedp Over a year ago

My mail doesn't have an -a option... I'm running centOS.

shellter Over a year ago

can you use sendmail? Also, I think can use a multi-part mime type to embed a document inside html. Try looking at a raw document that has all the features built in that you need and construct from there. Good luck.

thedp Over a year ago

@shellter Can you please give me an example of MIME with sendmail. Thanks.

thedp Over a year ago

@Dennis I can't install a 3rd party software, like mutt, on this machine.

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