Multipart/Alternative

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am having trouble sending mutipart/alternative messages through perl using the code below. Are there rrors in this code? Am I missing something? Thanks in advance.

print MAIL "To: $config->{email_to}\n";
print MAIL "From: $config->{email_from}\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $config->{email_subject}\n";
print MAIL "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=zzz\n\n";
print MAIL qq^
--zzz
Content-Type: text/plain

$config->{email_comment}

Read the full story at:\n$config->{url}

--zzz
Content-Type: text/html

$UrlHtmlData

--zzz--
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Re: Multipart/Alternative by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 11, 2003 at 15:37 UTC
Assuming there's a closing `^` somewhere, I don't see any Perl errors in the code. After all, all you have are print statements. I'd prefer to use a single here doc, but that's another issue. Now, whether you are using the correct MIME format, I don't know. I presume that if you aren't using a module for it, you know the MIME format better than I do. Abigail -- What has happened to the times when email was plain text, and nothing more than plain text?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Multipart/Alternative by extremely (Priest) on Feb 11, 2003 at 15:50 UTC
You'd be a lot happier in life if you'd just grab the MailTools package. (try MIME::Entity especially.) -- $you = new YOU; honk() if $you->love(perl)	[reply]
Re: Multipart/Alternative by extremely (Priest) on Feb 11, 2003 at 16:03 UTC
Oh, and to actually answer your non-perl question :), I think you need to doublequote the boundary string in the header. And I'm darn certain that "===" isn't a good idea for a string. If I were you, I'd make it a _lot_ uglier. -- $you = new YOU; honk() if $you->love(perl)	[reply]
Re: Multipart/Alternative by Jenda (Abbot) on Feb 11, 2003 at 20:48 UTC
`use Mail::Sender;` I'm not gonna copy the example from the module into here. The link above will take you directly to the code. HTH, Jenda	[reply] [d/l]