I use MIME::Lite to send html/text messages about:
http://velocity.activestate.com/docs/ActivePerl/site/lib/MIME/Lite.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Joerges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 1:31 PM
To: 'Mark Franz'; 'Larry E Stewart'; 'Perl-Win32-Web Mailing List'
Subject: RE: E-Mail with text and HTML
You would be referring to the Outlook Security Patch and I don't think it's
the problem as I can send a message without the text and just an inline HTML
doc and it renders the HTML in the body of the message. It only fails when
you add text to the message body - at least for me.
Trev.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Franz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: February 16, 2001 01:30 PM
To: Joerges, Trevor [FITZ2:C033:EXCH]; 'Larry E Stewart'; 'Perl-Win32-Web
Mailing List'
Subject: RE: E-Mail with text and HTML
"Outlook 2000 for some reason places the text in the body and makes the HTML
an attachment..."
This could be a patch installed with 2000, I just found out that I can no
longer open a .zip file in Outlook, I'm wondering if the same patch or
something similar could be whats causing your problem...
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Trevor
Joerges
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 10:07 AM
To: 'Larry E Stewart'; Perl-Win32-Web Mailing List
Subject: RE: E-Mail with text and HTML
Larry,
In my experience the Outlook client doesn't handle this type of e-mail the
way you would expect it to. But many other MUAs do. I have written a command
line mailer that sends messages in the appropriate format (freely available
from my web site below and 100% Perl compiled using Perl2Exe). The key being
a main boundary content type of either "multipart/mixed" or
"multipart/alternative" along with a couple other MIME headers
"Content-Disposition" and "Content-Transfer-Encoding".
The message appears fine with text first followed by an inline HTML document
in Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Lotus Notes and Eudora but Outlook
2000 for some reason places the text in the body and makes the HTML an
attachment. I've even tried modifying mail formatting in Outlook to HTML,
RTF and text to see if it renders the message differently and it doesn't.
I can't with 100% certainty point the finger at Outlook because I got fed up
with testing but thought I'd just share my experience.
Regards,
Trevor J. Joerges
<http://members.home.net/tjoerges>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Larry E Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: February 16, 2001 10:13 AM
To: Perl-Win32-Web Mailing List
Subject: RE: E-Mail with text and HTML
I have looked at messages with text and HTML, but cannot find the secret of
exactly what needs to be sent to an SMTP server. I see that all text and
HTML messages have in the header that there is a boundary between the text
part and the HTML part (i.e. your message contained Content-Type:
multipart/alternative;\r\nboundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C096CF.674118D0"),
but when I use this type of header and and try to separate the body of the
e-mail into two parts with a boundary between them, it still doesn't work
for me. I end up with all text or HTML. Does anyone know the details of
what exactly needs to be done to send a multipart text and HTML message?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 1:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: E-Mail with text and HTML
Take a look at the message I sent today with the subject: "RE: Automatically
Submit HTML/ASP Forms (fwd)".
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry E Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 10:37 AM
To: Perl-Win32-Web Mailing List
Subject: E-Mail with text and HTML
I use a script that connects to an SMTP server via a socket connection, and
then sends e-mail in HTML format. I have seen e-mail that contains both
text and HTML. The text will show in the preview pane of Outlook and then
when you open the e-mail you will see the HTML message. Can anyone tell me
what I need to do, or a good reference, so that I can modify my script to
send both text and HTML in an e-mail?
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