Well, here goes:
I'm trying to send a link from my script to sendmail, which in turn gets sent along to several email addresses. I'm guaranteed the same email client (netscape 4.76) for all my recipients, since this is just for work. I'm trying to embed the links in the good old fashioned way:
open(MAIL, '|/usr/lib/sendmail -t') or die "cannot fork sendmail: $!";
print MAIL "<a href=\"http://blah.com/script.cgi?approval=yes\">Click 
+here for YES</a> \n";
print MAIL "<a href=\"http://blah.com/script.cgi?approval=no\">Click h
+ere for NO</a> \n";

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...but the links show up exactly as they are typed above... and none of my users want to see all those lovely variables I'm passing, it'll just confuse them =/

So, what am I missing? I tried to include a "content type=text/html" line, but the links still printed out the long way. Can someone direct me to a sendmail reference, or share their own experience? Google is failing me in my searches so far... :(

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