Mail formatting when sending from script

[Cellobita]

I have a bash script - adapted from one I found on a thread on this forum - that sends a SMART report each day at noon. After upgrading from 11.2-U7, I've noticed that the new version of /usr/bin/mail seems to default to an html content, which breaks the formatting of the message. I've attached the before and after versions,

Before (FreeNAS 11.2):

After (FreeNAS 11.3):

to make the issue easier to understand.

My question is, how do I force mail to switch back to a plain text content?

TIA
Marcello Marques
Guarujá - SP - Brazil

 

[yeliaB]

I"m in the same boat -- my SMART report is much simpler (basically just output from diff) and the result is essentially unusable.

 

[Alecmascot]

Upgraded to 12.3 now my cron jobs don't work

I have three cron jobs that don't work. they did when i used 12.2 u7. smartreport.sh upsreport.sh zpoolstatus.sh #!/bin/sh ### Parameters ### logfile="/tmp/smart_report.tmp" email="" subject="SMART Status Report" drives=$(for drive in $(sysctl -n kern.disks); do \ if [ "$(smartctl -i...

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[Cellobita]

My script is different than the one on the thread mentioned above: basically a bunch of command outputs and echo's redirected to a temporary file, which is then sent to mail with the following line:

Code:

cat $reportfile | /usr/bin/mail -s "* ZFS Status [xxx]" myemail@isp.com

 

[yeliaB]

In my script I have a mail header consisting solely of a To: and a Subject: followed by a blank line, all fed into sendmail -t, which has worked for years. I have no MIME content type to remove. Heck, I even tried adding a MIME-Version line, and a Content-Type of "text/plain" (and even "text/html") and I got no mail sent at all. I've seen elsewhere to replace sendmail with mail -s <subj> followed by the body and recipient, so I tried that, but still just get the HTML version of the message instead of the plain-text version.

I'm pretty much at a loss here as to how to proceed, short of bodging an html wrapper around my diff output...

 

[Cellobita]

It seems clear that something changed internally on the mail command from 11.2 to 11.3 - I'll delay upgrading my other systems until we get this sorted out.

 

[yeliaB]

I ended up wrapping <pre></pre> around my report and it's readable again.

It offends my sensibilities, but at least it works...

 

[Cellobita]

Works here, too. I appreciate your solution, and will use it - albeit reluctantly - for my systems, but feel that the underlying issue should be better understood, and perhaps fixed.

Regards

Marcello Marques
Guarujá - SP - Brazil

 

[Cellobita]

Something changed between 11.3 and 11.3-U1, and the <pre></pre> hack suggested by yeliaB doesn't work anymore...

Any suggestions?

 

[Jurgen Segaert]

There's an update to the smart_report.sh script that addresses this issue.

See this post: https://www.ixsystems.com/community...ng-disk-burnin.28/updates#resource-update-279