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Mark L
Asked: 2010-01-14 03:10:51 +0800 CST

Get cron to send html-formatted emails

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I have a stats program which runs on log files via cron. The stats program can output HTML.

Right now I rely on the MAIL_TO mechanism in the crontab.

[email protected]
55 23 * * * /usr/bin/htmlstats

The problem is that I want the email sent to display as HTML and not as plain text.

Cron places the following header in the email:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

Any idea how I would change this to:

Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
email cron

3 Answers

  1. I put the CONTENT_TYPE="text/plain; charset=utf-8" in /etc/crontab to have my mail in UTF-8.

    Put CONTENT_TYPE="text/html; charset=utf-8" in /etc/crontab to send the mail in HTML.

    You may add it in specific file if the directory /etc/cron.d/ exists. In this case, the specification is defined only for the requested tasks.

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  2. Best Answer

    I don't think you can. A solution could be to pipe the output to sendmail or mail, which gives you more control over content type and other headers.

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  3. YES, you can. 

    <?php exec('(  echo "test<br>créer un mail"| mail -s "SUBJECT" -a "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8" '.$receiver.' -- -f '.$sender.' ) &> /dev/null &'); ?>
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