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I have this part .. 

--17410280190.8F1407fC3.912618
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 13:53:38 -0500
Content-Type: text/plain

<html>
 <head>
  <title>Daily Sage Issues</title>
  <style>
   body { font-family: sans-serif; }
   table { border: 1px solid black; border-spacing: 0px; border-collap
+se: separate }
   td { border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; }
   td.right { text-align: right; }
   td.left { text-align: left; }
   td.center { text-align: center; }

   td.bold { text-align: right; font-weight: bold; }
   div.head { text-align: center; font-size: 24px; }
  </style>
 </head>
 <body>
    <h2>Sage IC Issues - SG1</h2>
...

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And I'm intrigued to see that the content type is labelled as text/plain (probably the default that Email::Simple::Markdown creates). I wonder if I switch that to text/html if the blank line problem would go away. It could be that the message arrives as text/plain, but Outlook checks it out and says, "Hey, this is HTML! I can render this!", then sees a blank line, goes back to displaying regular text until the "HTML!" code pops back into gear and it goes back to rendering.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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Re^7: Is ChatGPT like having a thousand monkeys? ( Markdown != HTML )
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 26, 2025 at 01:12 UTC
    I've never worked with Email::Simple::Markdown, but the doc says you feed it with Markdown and it creates a multi-part email with the original text and the generated HTML version.

    From your previous description mentioning templates it seems you fed it with HTML right away, which could explain all your problems.

    Probably you just want to use Email::Simple ?

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

    update

    NB: please note also that lines longer than 78 characters (80 with CR LF) are discouraged by the RFC. (>998 are forbidden)

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