i can't, for the life of me, get this done right. I dunno whats going wrong. Looking at the email source, it looks as i believe it shoud -- but when it hits the yahoo/hotmail accounts, i just get 'content type=text/html' - as the body of the whole damn thing. sometimes i'll see that, and if i look at the source, it exhibits object/embed tags as xobject or xembed, rendering them useless (i've got a flash movie hardcoded to a url in there) i tried using Mime:Lite, but i had too many configuration problems.. any help would be GREATLY appreciated 
sub send_email_html {
    local($to, $from, $subject, $bodyHTML, $bodyTEXT) = @_;
    open (MAIL,"|$sendmailprog -t") || &return_error("500", "Sendm
+ail error");
    print MAIL "To: $to\n";
    print MAIL "From: $from\n";
    print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n";
    print MAIL "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
    print MAIL "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n";
    print MAIL "Content-type:     multipart/alternative; ";
    print MAIL "                boundary = unique-boundary-1\n";
    print MAIL "This is a MIME encoded message.\n";
    print MAIL "\n";
    print MAIL "--unique-boundary-1\n";
    print MAIL "Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII\n";
    print MAIL "\n";
    print MAIL "$bodyTEXT\n";
    print MAIL "\n";
    print MAIL "--unique-boundary-1\n";
    print MAIL "Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII\n";
    print MAIL "\n";
    print MAIL "$bodyHTML\n";
    close (MAIL);
}

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or 
use Mail::Bulkmail;
$bulk = Mail::Bulkmail->new(
    Smtp         => '127.0.0.1',
    From        => 'from@myhost.com',
    Subject        => 'attempt using mail bulkmail',
    Message        => $body{html},
    HTML        => 1,
);
$bulk->mail($toAddy);

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