How to sent Email as HTML from bash script by using mail or mailx command (Centos/Redhat)

Question

I am trying to sent an email from bash script which should have HTML table in body , I am using mail command in Redhat . but its keep sending me as Text file .

difference=`expr $artu_removed - $artu_added`

mail  -s "Built notification" test@gmail.com << EOF


<html>

<head><title></title>
</head>
<body>

<table>  
 <tr>
  <Td> Before </td>  <td>after </td>  <td>differece </td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <Td> $_before </td>  <td>$_after </td>  <td>$difference </td>
 </tr>

</table>

 Before:$_before
 After:$_after
 Difference:$difference
</body>
</html>
EOF

Can any one please let me know what shall I do, I am using Redhat, Not ubuntu

Thanks

See: [How to send HTML email using linux command line](https://stackoverflow.com/q/2591755/3776858) — Cyrus, Apr 12 '19 at 18:18
@Cyrus, Please see the issues in other comments, I am getting the HTML table in outlook but its giving this line as text "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: test@outlookcom User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit " — alammd, Apr 13 '19 at 07:38

qwsj · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-12T21:32:00.890

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Try it via mail (do not forget to add your variables):

mail -a "Content-type: text/html" -s "HTML message" test@gmail.com << EOF
<html>
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td> Before </td>
            <td> After </td>
            <td> Differece </td>
        </tr><tr>
            <td> $_before </td>
            <td> $_after </td>
            <td> $difference </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    Before: $_before
    After: $_after
    Difference: $difference
</body>
</html>
EOF

If you need send from CentOS/RedHat via mailx use it:

mail -s "$(echo -e "HTML message\nContent-Type: text/html")" test@gmail.com << EOF

Try it for outlook:

mail -s "$(echo -e "HTML message\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\nUser-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit")" test@outlook.com << EOF
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
    <title>Title</title>
...

edited Apr 12 '19 at 21:32

answered Apr 12 '19 at 18:27

qwsj

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Thanks I tryed that solution already , its seems mail -a command works in ubuntu but it does not work in Redhat, i get this error Content-type: text/html: No such file or directory – alammd Apr 12 '19 at 19:06
now email comes but its still same, in email, its showing as text , today i tried both mail and maix but none of them giving me html out put . – alammd Apr 12 '19 at 19:24
@alammd Maybe because you have no CSS? replace `` to ``. if you get the text then you should just see the HTML tags, true? – qwsj Apr 12 '19 at 19:27
basically, in email, I am seeing all Text between < – alammd Apr 12 '19 at 19:32
@alammd Where do you get message? gmail? i am trying: gmail.com, mail.ru, and my own mx - all perfectly! (CentOS 7.6.1810 / mailx 12.5-19.el7) – qwsj Apr 12 '19 at 19:37
!!! this is odd, yes in Gmail its fine, but i was trying to get this in outlook , but there its comming as text !! it seems outlook does take this as html, any idea why ? – alammd Apr 12 '19 at 19:42
!! Thanks for the help, I can see now the table, one problem left, Along with Table, bellow is coming as TExt value "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit " – alammd Apr 12 '19 at 20:15
@alammd i am updated again. unfortunately i can not send myself mail in outlook. have problems with the domain. try update. – qwsj Apr 12 '19 at 20:20
with the recent code in out look its the same problem, Can you give me the old one (before this one ) then lets try to see why that line is comming as text , I really appreciated your help – alammd Apr 12 '19 at 20:31
@alammd i restored msg. now I will check another variant – qwsj Apr 12 '19 at 20:35
with your last update, it does not work on outlook ( gmail is fine) , it outlook its comes as text totally. – alammd Apr 12 '19 at 20:49
@alammd the problem is that the outlook doesn't want to understand what content is `text/html`, he is recived `text/plain`, even if present `Content-Type: text/html` – qwsj Apr 12 '19 at 21:11
its is understanding, its showing the table in HTML, the out put is fine, but what i dont understand why its showing this line ";Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: test@gmail.com User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii" – alammd Apr 12 '19 at 21:18
with last one , Full HTML comes as a Text. – alammd Apr 12 '19 at 21:37
i am not make a test, have a problem with outlook. – qwsj Apr 12 '19 at 21:59

How to sent Email as HTML from bash script by using mail or mailx command (Centos/Redhat)

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