Re: [Boston.pm] HTML email messages

2003-02-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:54:31PM -0800, Palit, Nilanjan wrote: > This question is not directly related to Perl, but I'm hoping that someone here can >answer it. > > I have written a tool in Perl, that runs on Unix, to generate daily roll-up reports >and mail it out to a distribution list. Most

RE: [Boston.pm] HTML email messages

2003-02-03 Thread Wizard
> The example I showed did *not* provide the HTML document as an attachment. > I used a Content-Type of multipart/alternative, which indicates that the > parts of the message are alternative forms of the message, and the mail > client may choose to render whichever part it chooses. Outlook would s

Re: [Boston.pm] HTML email messages

2003-02-03 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:39:50AM -0500, Wizard wrote: > > Both of the proposed solutions so far would have you sending HTML-only > > email. Please do not do this; email which contains HTML without a > > corresponding plain text part is malformed. > > I understand the objections people may have

RE: [Boston.pm] HTML email messages

2003-02-03 Thread Wizard
> Both of the proposed solutions so far would have you sending HTML-only > email. Please do not do this; email which contains HTML without a > corresponding plain text part is malformed. I understand the objections people may have to the sole inclusion of HTML content in email, however providing

Re: [Boston.pm] HTML email messages

2003-02-03 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:54:31PM -0800, Palit, Nilanjan wrote: > This question is not directly related to Perl, but I'm hoping that > someone here can answer it. > > I have written a tool in Perl, that runs on Unix, to generate daily > roll-up reports and mail it out to a distribution list. Mos

RE: [Boston.pm] HTML email messages

2003-02-03 Thread Palit, Nilanjan
PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:03 AM To: Palit, Nilanjan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Boston.pm] HTML email messages Hi Nilanjan, The code below works for me; I've built this into a build script I wrote a while back to control some software builds we do

RE: [Boston.pm] HTML email messages

2003-02-03 Thread Pease, Kevin
printf (SENDMAIL ".\n"); close(SENDMAIL) or warn "sendmail didn't close nicely"; - end of code snippet - -- Kevin B. Pease FISC - SCME Fidelity Investments Systems Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] (617

RE: [Boston.pm] HTML email messages

2003-02-03 Thread Wizard
> But how would I get Outlook to recognize that as a HTML > message and not a plain text message? Any ideas would be greatly > appreciated. I've used this from the shell prompt with sendmail: === FILE mail.src === From: "Me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Human Resources" <[EMAIL

[Boston.pm] HTML email messages

2003-02-02 Thread Palit, Nilanjan
This question is not directly related to Perl, but I'm hoping that someone here can answer it. I have written a tool in Perl, that runs on Unix, to generate daily roll-up reports and mail it out to a distribution list. Most of the recipients use Microsoft Outlook to read the reports. I have rec