Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails[SOLVED-Agn]

2005-09-19 Thread Ow Mun Heng 
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.
 
 
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 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]

2005-09-19 Thread A. Khattri 
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]

2005-09-19 Thread Ow Mun Heng 
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.

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