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
I tried with mutt 1.6d and that option -e "set content_type=text/html" doesn't work for me. After search around i found below command line works for me:
mutt -e "my_hdr Content-Type: text/html" test@yahoo.com -s "subject" < mytest.html
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When I try your command, mutt is telling me that content_type=text/html
is an unknown command. So you have to use the "set" command to make this work:
mutt -e "set content_type=text/html" Email address -s "subject" < test.html
That worked in my tests.
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
<p><b>hi!</b></p>
--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.
I use Mutt 1.5.23 to send an html email with embedded image, and this works for me.
mutt -e "set content_type=text/html" Email -s "subject" -a pic.png < test.html
file test.html:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<img src="cid:pic.png" " />
</body>
</html>
my mutt version is 1.4.x, and I also cannot set content_type=text/html, it is reported as unknown variable.
and I checked the mutt doc, the content_type is only supported by version 1.5.x, such as the latest version 1.5.21.
obviously, html mail was not supported by version 1.4.x.