Hi monks,

I've been working on a module for work and in one part of it I need to generate an email object using Email::MIME::Kit.

Here are my requirements:

  1. The email is going to be HTML formatted with images.
  2. It will sometimes contain a separate file attachment.
  3. I want the email to be generated from a scalar or hash containing the template.

I've been looking for docs/tutorials/anything to help me with this for > 1 day now and I'm so frustrated...

If anyone can help me with this, I'd be eternally thankful!

Here's my code for the sub so far:

sub create_mime_email {

  # Parse arguments
  my $template_path = shift or die q~No template file found in provide
+d path~;
  my $manifest_reader = shift // 'JSON';

  # Load required modules
  use Email::MIME::Kit;

  my $kit = Email::MIME::Kit->new({
    source => $template_path,
    manifest_reader => $manifest_reader,
  });

  my $email = $kit->assemble();

  return $email;
}

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... And the template code:

{
  "header": [
    { "Subject": "MIME e-mail test"     },
    { "From":    "John Doe <john@gmail.com>" },
    { "To":      "Jane Doe <jane@gmail.com>" }
  ],
  "alternatives": [
    {
      "container_type": "multipart/related",
      "type": "text/html",
      "path": "better-alternative.html",
      "attributes": { "charset": "utf-8" },
      "attachments": [
        {
          "type": "image/jpeg",
          "path": "logo.jpg"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "attachments": [
    {
      "type": "application/pdf",
      "path": "bogus-report.pdf",
      "attributes": { "filename": "report.pdf" }
    }
  ]
}

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... And the contents of the html template file:

<html>
<body>
Hello World!

<img src='cid:[% cid_for("logo.jpg") %]' />

</body>
</html>

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In reply to Need help generating an HTML mail with Email::MIME::Kit by xMonk

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