Ever since asking To Framework or not to Framework, I have used Template for everything that needs anything more than a minute amount of output. Web pages, reports, forms, etc. Using Template has made development much quicker and maintenance much simpler.

But the one place I don't use a templating system is email.
Well I do - of sorts. I have an HTML file that my script reads in, substitutes some bits of text before passing it to MIME::Lite to be sent out. This works but does mean having the template processing code embedded in my script or me reinventing it in a module.

So, what do you recommend to a user of Template for email templating?

I have looked at MIME::Lite::TT::HTML but notice that it hasn't been updated for 14 years. There is also Email::Template.

Do you have any recommendations for these or another templating module for emails?

In reply to Templating emails by Bod

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