Mutt: sending html-formatted e-mail with an attachment - linux

Question

I have a requirement like, i need to export the sql query result set to a .csv file and send it as an attachment. but here i need to include the body with html formatting and wanted to include sample rows of the .csv file in body as well in html format.
csv file contains :
Id ID_CNT
a 3
b 6
and i want to display the mail body with sample rows.
I have tried below two ways
mutt -e "set content_type=text/html" -a query_gen23.csv -s "abc" abc#gmail.com
export CONTENT="test.html"
export SUBJECT="$subject"
#(
# echo "To: "
# echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"
# echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
# echo "Content-Type: text/html"
# echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
# cat $CONTENT
#) | /usr/sbin/sendmail $MAILTO
mutt -s "$subject" -a "$subject".csv -a test.html "$MAILTO" </dev/null
Thanks in Advance!

Answer 1

It's a long time since I had used mutt, but if I remember right, it expects the body of the mail from standard input. In your script, you input-redirect from /dev/null !
I would divide the task into two steps: One creates the body (HTML code with the CSV sample lines), and the second step pipes this file into mutt. I think this is much easier than trying to do everything at once.

Answer 2

Following works fine for me :
#!/usr/bin/ksh
export MAILTO="spam#ebay.com"
export SUBJECT="Mail Subject"
export BODY="/tmp/email_body.html"
export ATTACH="/tmp/attachment.txt"
(
echo "To: $MAILTO"
echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
echo 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-q1w2e3r4t5"'
echo
echo '---q1w2e3r4t5'
echo "Content-Type: text/html"
echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
cat $BODY
echo '---q1w2e3r4t5'
echo 'Content-Type: application; name="'$(basename $ATTACH)'"'
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64"
echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'$(basename $ATTACH)'"'
uuencode -m $ATTACH $(basename $ATTACH)
echo '---q1w2e3r4t5--'
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail $MAILTO