Send Html page As Email using "mutt"

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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 use

mutt -s "hi" -a attach.html [email protected] < /dev/null

But if I try to send the html file as the body as follows

mutt -e content_type=text/html Email address -s "subject" < test.html

then instead of the html file i get the source text of the html file.

Is there any way that I can make the body of the message as html instead of plain text???

Anticline answered 24/7, 2011 at 8:36 Comment(0)

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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.

Diminish answered 24/7, 2011 at 8:48 Comment(5)

it return : error in command line "content_type" : unknown command and i get the source code insted of html body ?? – Anticline 24/7, 2011 at 8:56

@eldorado what version of mutt are you using? apparently the "content_type"-variable is not available in the version 1.4.x or before. – Diminish 24/7, 2011 at 9:4

Well, 1.5.21 is the most recent one (and the one i've used for testing the command). But according to the mutt webpage it's still a development-version. If you can live with it that's okay, otherwise there are other ways to send HTML-mails. – Diminish 24/7, 2011 at 9:20

could you please Give me The other Way TO send Html-mails ? – Anticline 24/7, 2011 at 15:8

@eldorado see sending HTML mail using a shell script. But I have read today that sending HTML-Mails only (that means without multi-part with a text/plain alternative) is increasing the possibility of getting the mail considered as SPAM (I don't have the link so "citation needed"). – Diminish 25/7, 2011 at 17:46

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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" [email protected]  -s "subject" < mytest.html

Reference here

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Spam answered 7/9, 2012 at 3:44 Comment(2)

This one, on mutt 1.4 will send two headers content-type, one for plain text, other for html. what the client will show up is up to then... gmail will show the plain text, so be careful – Morningglory 20/11, 2014 at 15:29

Just for the record, this also works for version 1.5.20. – Andreasandree 24/8, 2016 at 15:0

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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.

Woodworm answered 8/2, 2012 at 2:35 Comment(0)

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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>

Carmichael answered 26/8, 2015 at 12:44 Comment(0)

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

Subject: test html mail
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
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.

Char answered 24/7, 2011 at 11:17 Comment(2)

Mutt does not allow you to insert a Content-Type header. The only way is through the command line. – Collected 7/5, 2017 at 16:14

@Collected so it does allow you to insert a content-type header, with -e. – Coccidioidomycosis 21/12, 2023 at 11:23

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