How to send simple html emails
Hi,
I am on SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 and have mutt v1.2.5.1i
installed. The mutt package is as supplied by SCO in
the skunkware package. The server currently sends
plain text emails perfectly via a windows server that
says this in response to an smtp connection (220
<server> Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version:
6.0.3790.0 ready at <date/time>). Outlook is the
standard reader.
What I need to do is send emails in html format, so
that long URLs can be shown as links on short words
using the href attribute on the anchor tag. I have a
small file I am using for testing:
pbisset@desley> cat x
To: pbisset@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: foo1@xxxxxxx
Subject: A simple example
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/HTML; charset=US-ASCII
<HTML>
<head></head>
<body>
<h1>Hi there!</h1>
An example of an HTML message.<p>
Try clicking <a href="http://fbs";>here.</a><p>
</body></HTML>
pbisset@desley>
and have tried sending this like this:
cat x | mutt -H /dev/stdin
However, for some reason the headers come across as:
<snip>
From: Peter Bisset <foo1@xxxxxxx>
To: pbisset@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: A simple example
Message-ID: <20041101134559.A28773@xxxxxxxxxx>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i
</snip>
If I telnet to the smtp server and type the email
using the SMTP commands it appears perfectly in
Outlook. It just looks like the content-type gets
overwritten when coming from mutt.
Can someone pls help me - have searched and searched,
but can't find out how to do it or what I am doing
wrong. I don't want to send graphics (yet;-), just a
message with a very long URL hidden.
Thanks
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