Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 08:56 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: mail -a Content-type: text/html; -s Your Daily Stock Quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] filename.html I have another problem now. for some reason, the system I was developing for (FC3), the mail command does not have a -a option. I'm still searching for the correct mail 'version' in fc3. Anyone else has any more suggestions? All I can say is that there are various packages that all supply /bin/mail. In gentoo the package commonly used is mail-client/mailx which hails from debian.org (according to portage $HOMEPAGE) but the source looks for like BSD, and the copyright is to the Regents of the University of California, and the license is BSD. mail-client/nail (nail.sf.net) will do the same job, and is described as enhanced. It looks like it handles mime: Supports the MIME specifications. Nail can send and receive attachments and code and decode international character strings. If the system libraries provide appropriate support, conversion between different character encodings is performed. In combination with a UTF-8 terminal, nearly all international languages are supported. External converter programs can be automatically invoked e. g. to view messages in HTML format. I would look for a nail package for FC. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails[SOLVED-Agn]
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 22:36 -0500, John Jolet wrote:
On Sunday 18 September 2005 22:11, A. Khattri wrote:
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Be that as it may, I'm not Perl person (picked up the book, but haven't
really progressed anywhere hehe).
But.. when push comes to shove
Im assuming there is probably a CPAN module that does most of this for you
- this is why I think Perl might be a better way to go.
--
there is...MIME::Entity...used thusly (from a perl program I use to email pdf
files, but you pass the mim-type on the command line, so it can send any mime
type):
my $top = MIME::Entity-build(Type = multipart/mixed,
From = [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Bcc = $address,
Subject = Mills Messenger by
e-Mail);
$top-attach( Path = $file_to_send,
Type = $mime_type,
Encoding = base64);
my $message = Attached is your Mills Messenger for this week. Enjoy!;
$top-attach(Data=$message);
open MAIL, |/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix -t -oi -oem or die Error on
mail
o
pen is: $!\n;
$top-print(\*MAIL);
close MAIL;
I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to
my script.
mail_header()
{
echo MIME-Version:1.0
echo From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
echo To:$RECIPIENT
echo Subject:Quotes $DATE
echo Content-Type: text/html
echo
}
and then I added a script for cron
#!/bin/sh
#
TEMPFILE=/tmp/file.$$
PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh
$PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html $TEMPFILE 2/dev/null1
/usr/sbin/sendmail -t $TEMPFILE rm $TEMPFILE
Next, I think the above code can be enhanced by not using a tempfile.
perhaps a EOF
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails[SOLVED-Agn]
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to
my script.
mail_header()
{
echo MIME-Version:1.0
echo From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
echo To:$RECIPIENT
echo Subject:Quotes $DATE
echo Content-Type: text/html
echo
}
and then I added a script for cron
#!/bin/sh
#
TEMPFILE=/tmp/file.$$
PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh
$PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html $TEMPFILE 2/dev/null1
/usr/sbin/sendmail -t $TEMPFILE rm $TEMPFILE
Next, I think the above code can be enhanced by not using a tempfile.
perhaps a EOF
You could probably use a HERE document.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails[SOLVED-Agn]
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 01:23 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to my script. #!/bin/sh # TEMPFILE=/tmp/file.$$ PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh $PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html $TEMPFILE 2/dev/null1 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t $TEMPFILE rm $TEMPFILE Next, I think the above code can be enhanced by not using a tempfile. perhaps a EOF You could probably use a HERE document. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html Not sure what that is. No I-Net access currently. Anyway, on the gentoo box, a simple $PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html 2/dev/null1 | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t works. In Fedora, the system which will be sending it out, well, I remember doing just that but it didn't work. Will try again. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 01:15 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I have another problem now. for some reason, the system I was developing for (FC3), the mail command does not have a -a option. I'm still searching for the correct mail 'version' in fc3. Anyone else has any more suggestions? Unless you're prepared to use raw sendmail and generate all the headers yourself, you might be better off using perl and a module specifically designed to encode mail attachments correctly. Sigh.. Yeah.. I can do this. It just involves using the -t to sendmail. Speaking as a programmer, perl is a lot easier to deal with than bash for textual operations such as this. Be that as it may, I'm not Perl person (picked up the book, but haven't really progressed anywhere hehe). But.. when push comes to shove -- -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:28:00 up 45 min, 6 users, load average: 0.21, 0.50, 0.78 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Be that as it may, I'm not Perl person (picked up the book, but haven't really progressed anywhere hehe). But.. when push comes to shove Im assuming there is probably a CPAN module that does most of this for you - this is why I think Perl might be a better way to go. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Sunday 18 September 2005 22:11, A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Be that as it may, I'm not Perl person (picked up the book, but haven't really progressed anywhere hehe). But.. when push comes to shove Im assuming there is probably a CPAN module that does most of this for you - this is why I think Perl might be a better way to go. -- there is...MIME::Entity...used thusly (from a perl program I use to email pdf files, but you pass the mim-type on the command line, so it can send any mime type): my $top = MIME::Entity-build(Type = multipart/mixed, From = [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bcc = $address, Subject = Mills Messenger by e-Mail); $top-attach( Path = $file_to_send, Type = $mime_type, Encoding = base64); my $message = Attached is your Mills Messenger for this week. Enjoy!; $top-attach(Data=$message); open MAIL, |/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix -t -oi -oem or die Error on mail o pen is: $!\n; $top-print(\*MAIL); close MAIL; -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 20:47 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:07:23AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted). I'm using cron to send the email out. Try using the mail command behold the power of google: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/171 to put it simply: mail -a Content-type: text/html; -s Your Daily Stock Quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] filename.html I have another problem now. for some reason, the system I was developing for (FC3), the mail command does not have a -a option. I'm still searching for the correct mail 'version' in fc3. Anyone else has any more suggestions? Sortir en Pantoufles: up 35 days, 3:49 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 08:56:21 up 12:56, 7 users, load average: 0.27, 0.37, 0.36 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I have another problem now. for some reason, the system I was developing for (FC3), the mail command does not have a -a option. I'm still searching for the correct mail 'version' in fc3. Anyone else has any more suggestions? Unless you're prepared to use raw sendmail and generate all the headers yourself, you might be better off using perl and a module specifically designed to encode mail attachments correctly. Speaking as a programmer, perl is a lot easier to deal with than bash for textual operations such as this. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Friday 16 September 2005 00:07, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted). I'm using cron to send the email out. I don't think it'll ever work. The problem is you need to add the content type to the headers. Mutt has an option to specify a draft file to read header and body from, but seems to lose/re-write the content-type. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
It seems to me that you need a couple of other things:
1. a look at a couple of the html emails in my inbox show a mail
header (ie part of the email where stuff like from, to and subject go) like
this:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=_=_NextPart_001_01C5B8D9.821B04F0
you can add extra headers using the mail command with the -a parameter
(according to man mail)
-a Specify additional header fields on the command line such as X-Loop:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. You have to use
quotes if the string contains spaces. This argument may be
specified more than once, the headers
will then be concatenated.
2. The body of the message must be in mime format using the same boundary as
is specified in the header like this:
--_=_NextPart_001_01C5B8D9.821B04F0
Content-Type: text/plain
(here is the text part of the message)
--_=_NextPart_001_01C5B8D9.821B04F0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN
HTML (all the html bits)
/HTML
below that the boundary is specified again:
--_=_NextPart_001_01C5B8D9.821B04F0--
(thats the very last line in the file)
3. i tried using mpack to make an html message from the command line,
but it didn't work - I might be doing something wrong.
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:07:23 +0800
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Hi,
I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I
want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script
working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as
HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted).
I'm using cron to send the email out.
I've even put the echo statement :
html_header()
{
echo Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
echo HTMLHEADTITLEStock Quotes : $DATE /TITLE/HEAD
echo 'STYLE TYPE=TEXT/CSS'
echo h1 {color: gray; border-bottom: 3px double silver}
echo h2,h3 {color: gray; border-bottom: 1px solid silver}
echo /STYLE/HEAD
echo BODY
echo H1Stock Quotes : $DATE /H1
echo BRBR
}
but all I get is :
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
HTMLHEADTITLEStock Quotes : Fri Sep 16 06:52:02 2005
/TITLE/HEAD
STYLE TYPE=TEXT/CSS
h1 {color: gray; border-bottom: 3px double silver}
h2,h3 {color: gray; border-bottom: 1px solid silver}
/STYLE/HEAD
BODY
H1Stock Quotes : Fri Sep 16 06:52:02 2005 /H1
BRBR
What sort of content-type do I need to put into it? or do I have to
format the message and use sendmail -t quote
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:07:23AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted). I'm using cron to send the email out. Try using the mail command behold the power of google: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/171 to put it simply: mail -a Content-type: text/html; -s Your Daily Stock Quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] filename.html HTH W -- I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I HATE people like that. -- Tom Lehrer Sortir en Pantoufles: up 35 days, 3:49 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails [SOLVED]
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 20:47 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:07:23AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted). I'm using cron to send the email out. Try using the mail command behold the power of google: I did, but obviously searching for bash script + email + HTML + format doesn't yield anything since it can't be done(?) http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/171 to put it simply: mail -a Content-type: text/html; -s Your Daily Stock Quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] filename.html I tried that. It worked perfectly. Only thing now, I'll have to hack the script to put the output into a file and send our the file instead of using cron. Should be a simple thing. Thanks. HTH W -- I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I HATE people like that. -- Tom Lehrer Sortir en Pantoufles: up 35 days, 3:49 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:14:16 up 2 days, 21:48, 7 users, load average: 1.55, 1.10, 2.36 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails [SOLVED]
On Sep 15, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 20:47 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:07:23AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted). I'm using cron to send the email out. Try using the mail command behold the power of google: I did, but obviously searching for bash script + email + HTML + format doesn't yield anything since it can't be done(?) http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/171 to put it simply: mail -a Content-type: text/html; -s Your Daily Stock Quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] filename.html I tried that. It worked perfectly. Only thing now, I'll have to hack the script to put the output into a file and send our the file instead of using cron. Should be a simple thing. Thanks. HTH W -- I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I HATE people like that. -- Tom Lehrer Sortir en Pantoufles: up 35 days, 3:49 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:14:16 up 2 days, 21:48, 7 users, load average: 1.55, 1.10, 2.36 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list you could also write a small perl script to actually send the emailI send out a newsletter that way every week. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails [SOLVED]
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 20:30 -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Sep 15, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 20:47 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:07:23AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted). I'm using cron to send the email out. Try using the mail command http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/171 to put it simply: mail -a Content-type: text/html; -s Your Daily Stock Quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] filename.html I tried that. It worked perfectly. Only thing now, I'll have to hack the script to put the output into a file and send our the file instead of using cron. Should be a simple thing. you could also write a small perl script to actually send the emailI send out a newsletter that way every week. That's what I just did.. $ cat cron_fetch_stock.sh #!/bin/bash # TEMPFILE=/tmp/file.$$ PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh $PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html $TEMPFILE 2/dev/null1 mail -a Content-Type: text/html -s Stock Quotes `date +%c` $TEMPFILE gentoo rm $TEMPFILE -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:42:48 up 2 days, 22:17, 7 users, load average: 1.06, 0.86, 1.06 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails [SOLVED]
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:43:50 +0800 Ow Mun Heng wrote: That's what I just did.. $ cat cron_fetch_stock.sh #!/bin/bash # TEMPFILE=/tmp/file.$$ PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh $PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html $TEMPFILE 2/dev/null1 mail -a Content-Type: text/html -s Stock Quotes `date +%c` $TEMPFILE gentoo rm $TEMPFILE whats wrong with : $PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html 2/dev/null | mail -a Content-Type: text/html -s Stock Quotes `date +%c` Assuming $PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT outputs to stdout (it should). -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
