Is there a way to format Mailer.pm to send mail in HTML format, or in the alternative, how actually do you go about sending HTML formatted mail?

Check out one of the recent Threads in the Forum that provides codes for doing this.

Regards.

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Eliot Lee
Anthro TECH,L.L.C
www.anthrotech.com
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Thanks Eliot:

That was a big help! Don't know why I couldn't find that thread when I searched. Again, thanks.

Thanks Eliot:

I have searched for "html" and "mail" and the results turn up nothing that answers my question. Perhaps I was unclear with what I meant. I wish to send out email that is html formatted instead of text.

[This message has been edited by Lee (edited December 16, 1999).]

Go here:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/forum/resources/Forum8/HTML/000921.html

You can use the codes in it within your SMTP routines you have in your scripts.



Regards.

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Eliot Lee
Anthro TECH,L.L.C
www.anthrotech.com
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OK, I took the information provided in the threads and gave it a shot ... to no avail.

Here is my code:

open (MAIL, "|$mailprog -t")
| | print "Can't start mail program";
print MAIL "To: $name\n";
print MAIL "From: $from\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n";
print MAIL "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
print MAIL "Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii\n";
print MAIL "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n";
print MAIL "Content-Disposition: inline; filename=newsletter.html\n";
print MAIL "Content-Base: http\:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/data\/newsletter\/\n";

close (MAIL);

Can anyone tell what I am doing wrong? I know the mail program is configured properly because text files get sent with no problem.

Thanks for your help. Merry Christmas!

Change the following codes:


TO THE FOLLOWING:


Then in your $mailprog variable, use the following:


You may have to change the sendmail path to what you have on your server.

Also, the codes you have are for SENDMAIL not SMTP or Sockets that the Mailer.pm uses. You need to have SENDMAIL program on your server for the codes you have posted to use.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

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Eliot Lee
Anthro TECH,L.L.C
www.anthrotech.com
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It appears that people are having trouble understanding what is going on here. It is my fault. Here is the code to make this work. I only displayed the header info, and not including the perl syntax.


Hope that clears things up.

Regards



[This message has been edited by Chris071371 (edited January 03, 2000).]

Thank you, Chris!
It worked perfectly for me!!
One question. How come you used 7bit encoding not 8?