I want to send a HTML file as message body and want to attach multiple text files to this email message.
Since html file needs to be sent, sendmail has to be used ( I could not do it using mailx ).
How do you send HTML body email and multiple text attachments using sendmail?
Assuming you have uunecode available in your system you can send email with multiple attachments like this:
#!/bin/bash
...
...
...
BOUNDARY="=== This is the boundary between parts of the message. ==="
{
echo "From: $MAILFROM"
echo "To: $MAILTO"
echo "Subject:" $SUBJECT
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
echo "Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; "
echo " BOUNDARY="\"$BOUNDARY\"
echo
echo " This message is in MIME format. But if you can see this,"
echo " you aren't using a MIME aware mail program. You shouldn't "
echo " have too many problems because this message is entirely in"
echo " ASCII and is designed to be somewhat readable with old "
echo " mail software."
echo
echo "--${BOUNDARY}"
echo "Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII"
echo
echo "This email comes with multiple attachments."
echo
echo
echo "--${BOUNDARY}"
echo "Content-Type: application/zip; charset=US-ASCII; name="${ZIPFILE}
echo "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="`basename ${ZIPFILE}`
echo
uuencode $ZIPFILE $ZIPFILE
echo
echo "--${BOUNDARY}--"
echo "Content-Type: application/pdf; charset=US-ASCII; name="${PDFFILE}
echo "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="`basename ${PDFFILE}`
echo
uuencode $PDFFILE $PDFFILE
echo
echo "--${BOUNDARY}--"
} | /usr/lib/sendmail -t
Here is a bash script I use to send reports I generate to people. They are sent as attachments. Place your HTML in the "body" variable of the script. I will leave the parametrization of the variables up to you.
#!/bin/bash
function get_mimetype(){
file --mime-type "$1" | sed 's/.*: //'
}
from="[email protected]"
to="[email protected]"
subject="Your Report my Lord"
boundary="=== Boundary ==="
body="The reports are attached to this email"
declare -a attachments
attachments=( "fileOne.out" "fileTwo.out" "fileThree.out" "file-et-cetera.out")
# Build headers
{
printf '%s\n' "From: $from
To: $to
Subject: $subject
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$boundary\"
--${boundary}
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"US-ASCII\"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
$body
"
for file in "${attachments[@]}"; do
[ ! -f "$file" ] && echo "Attachment $file not found, omitting file" >&2 && continue
mimetype=$(get_mimetype "$file")
printf '%s\n' "--${boundary}
Content-Type: $mimetype
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file\"
"
base64 "$file"
echo
done
# print last boundary with closing --
printf '%s\n' "--${boundary}--"
} | sendmail -t -oi
I don't think sendmail is going to help you with that. Go for a client like mutt, and do e.g. mutt -a file1 -a file2 -- [email protected]. Or go for perl.
