Solution for sending html email from cronjobs

Question

I am looking for a way to email the output from various cronjob to specific addresses. The cronjob MAILTO command is too generic. I therefore pipe the output of a job into the mail command.

This works fine except that the output is html encoded and I need to add an Content-Type header to each message.

My version of mail doesn't support the -a flag, which would be perfect. Additionally it seems sendmail isn't available as this is running in a chrooted jail.

Answer 1

This solution works as needed.

echo "HTML Message goes here" | mail -s "$(echo -e "This is the subject\nContent-Type: text/html")"

from : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2591755/how-send-html-mail-using-linux-command-line

Answer 2

Pipe it to shell script like this

(echo "Content-type: text/html" ; cat ) | mail recipient

Answer 3

This works on Solaris 10 !

1) Be sure your system has a SMTP Server defined on the /etc/hosts

##############################################
#               SMTP SERVER                  #
##############################################
10.100.231.115    smtpserver.yourdomain.com

2) On the home directory of the user that owns the cron job, create the file: .forward

3) Insert on the file .forward the email address to whom you desire to send the output of the cron Job.

Please Note that I dont think this output is on HTML format ! Just give it a try !