Brothers,
I am attempting to write a script that will send and html newsletter for a client. Consider the following code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

    use strict;
    use warnings;

use Mail::Sender;

my $sender = new Mail::Sender {smtp => 'localhost'};

$sender->OpenMultipart({
    from => 'marketing@mydomain.foo',
    to => 'marketlist@mydomain.foo',
    subject => 'we are so great!',
    type => 'multipart/related'
});

$sender->Attach({
    description => 'html body',
    ctype => 'text/html; charset=us-ascii',
    encoding => '7bit',
    disposition => 'NONE',
    file => 'mes.html'
});

$sender->Attach({
    description => 'vici gif',
    ctype => 'image/gif',
    encoding => 'base64',
    disposition => "inline; filename=\"VICI.gif\";\r\nContent-ID: <img
+1>",
    file => 'VICI.gif'
});

$sender->Close;

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I've had limited success with this. Some email clients receive the html and image in the body others (Outlook) receive both as attachments. Is there a way I can ensure that the html and images will come in the message body?

Thanks,

Neil Watson
watson-wilson.ca

In reply to Sending HTML Mail by neilwatson

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