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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.
MAILTO=my@email.addr
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"
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.
CONTENT_TYPE variable solution mentioned in another answer seems to work at least in some cron versions.
Oct 15, 2013 at 18:19
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.
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 &'); ?>
