Send Html page As Email using “mutt”

Question

I have been using mutt to send emails from inside another application & it works fine. I have to send html files and currently I have to send them as attachments. So I u

Answer 1

If you look at the source of an HTML email, you'll see at minimum something like:

Subject: test html mail
From: sender@example.com
To: recipient@example.com
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec520ea5d6918e204a8cea3b4

--bcaec520ea5d6918e204a8cea3b4
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

*hi!*

--bcaec520ea5d6918e204a8cea3b4
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

hi!

--bcaec520ea5d6918e204a8cea3b4--

So, you have to create a "Content-Type:" header, and add the boundaries above the text-only version, and above and below the HTML version.

Given the amount of hand-crafting required, you might as well hand the message over to sendmail instead of mutt.