PERL Beginners - Sending email a HTML page

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Sending email a HTML page

John

2004-03-29, 4:38 am

I want to send HTML file via
MIME::Lite

Is that practicable?

Paul D. Kraus

2004-03-29, 2:33 pm

You just attach the html page?

If you want to actually send an html email that is different and you should
perldoc MIME::Lite.

Html mail is blocked on a lot of peoples systems. I for one will not even open
a message that is not plain text. Just a suggestion.

Paul
On Monday 29 March 2004 02:59 am, John wrote:
> I want to send HTML file via
> MIME::Lite
>
> Is that practicable?

Zentara

2004-03-29, 4:31 pm

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:59:18 +0300, isofroni@cc.uoi.gr (John) wrote:

>I want to send HTML file via
>MIME::Lite
>
>Is that practicable?

Yes, and you have alot of different ways to do it to.
Send the html mail, send the html as an attachment,
send html mail with inline photos, etc.
But remember that most people don't like html email,
so if you do send it, you should send a text email with
the html as an attachment.
Here is an example to send html mail with photo, notice
the necessary " cid: and Id " tags on the photo.
(Untested but should work)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Send HTML document with inline images
use strict;
use MIME::Lite;

# Create a new MIME Lite object
my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
From =>'foo@foo123.com',
To =>'whoever@wherever.com',
Subject =>'Hi',
Type =>'multipart/related');

my $text = "Hi, here is an email in text or html";

# Add your plain text
$msg->attach(
Type => 'text/plain',
Data => $text
);

# Add the body to your HTML message
$msg->attach(
Type => 'text/html',
Data => qq{ <BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>
<H2>Hi</H2>
<P ALIGN="left">
This is an HTML message.
</P>
<P ALIGN="left">
<A HREF="http://foo123.com/">Here's a link</A>.
</P>
<P ALIGN="middle">
<IMG SRC="cid:2uni2.jpg">
</P>
</BODY> });

# Attach the image
$msg->attach(Type => 'image/jpg',
Id => '2uni2.jpg',
Path => '2uni2.jpg');

# Send it
$msg->send();
__END__
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