How to send a mail with a URL with swaks?

Question

How to send mails with URL with swaks. For instance, how would you to send the following mail?

link

I tried without sucess

swaks -t recipient@mail.com \
--body link<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>

Since it is what appear if we display the message as a raw message.

You need to do more than that to send HTML email. http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/faq.html#send_html_email — ceejayoz, Apr 24 '17 at 15:45

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 24 '17 at 18:50

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The email without the mime headers would come across as plain text. The mime headers make the message body gets seen as HTML.

swaks --body '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">link</a>' - --add-header "MIME-Version: 1.0" --add-header "Content-Type: text/html" -t recipient@mail.com

edited Apr 24 '17 at 18:50

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answered Apr 24 '17 at 16:09

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Can you explain how this solves the problem? – chicks Apr 24 '17 at 16:32
@chicks the email without the mime headers would come across as plain text, The mime headers make the message body get seen as HTML. – Zoredache Apr 24 '17 at 18:43

How to send a mail with a URL with swaks?

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