SOLVED Cron Email as CONTENT_TYPE text/html; charset=utf-8

[Andrew Davis]

Hello,
Currently I have several Cron jobs that are being run on my server, they were set up via the cPanel interface, Cron Jobs page.

All emails are being sent as: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

What is the best way to send all cron email (or a specific cron job's emails) as HTML format?


I did some research, and found that this line:
CONTENT_TYPE="text/html; charset=utf-8"

Can be added to: "/etc/crontab" or "crontab -e"

Which is supposed to resolve the issue.


I've tried both options, but no changes are being made to my cron emails.
The source still shows "text/plain".


Can someone please suggest the best way to go about doing this on a cPanel/WHM server?

Should I revert the changes I did to crontab?

Did I need to reboot my server or apache for changes to take effect?

Thanks,
Andrew

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello Andrew,

Are you logged in via SSH as the account username when using the "crontab -e" command? If not, ensure to login as the account username when using that command. Or, simply edit the user's crontab file directly at the /var/spool/cron/username location.

Thank you.

 

[Andrew Davis]

Hello @cPanelMichael,
Thanks very much for the guidance.

I was logged in as root while running the "crontab -e" command.

I edited the file at the "/var/spool/cron/username" location, and this worked right away.
Cron emails are being sent in HTML format.

Thanks again!
Andrew