Hi I'm currently working on sending an HTML e-mail with inline images using Mail::Sender and running into problems. I can get the images to show up fine in Outlook but when I print the messages the images show up as the "not found" x's.

The code below is mostly shamelessly cut from the Mail::Sender docs. Also different clients seem to handle the results very differently. I'm looking for any insight into this particular problem, or best practices for getting this to work in *most* clients.

Thanks,
vroom 

use Mail::Sender;
my $sender = new Mail::Sender
  {smtp => 'smtp@blah.com', from => 'emailforyou@blah.com'};
if (ref $sender->OpenMultipart({
from => 'webmaster@ci.grand-rapids.mi.us', to => $to,
subject => 'mail message',
boundary => 'boundary-test-1',
multipart => 'related'})) {
$sender->Attach(
 {description => 'html body',
 ctype => 'text/html; charset=us-ascii',
 encoding => '7bit',
 disposition => 'NONE',
 file => 'file.html'
});
$sender->Attach({
description => 'file1.jpg',
ctype => 'image/gif',
encoding => 'base64',
disposition => "inline; filename=\"file1.jpg\";\r\nContent-ID: <img1>"
+,
file => 'file1.jpg'
});
$sender->Attach({
description => 'logo.gif',
ctype => 'image/gif',
encoding => 'base64',
disposition => "inline; filename=\"logo.gif\";\r\nContent-ID: <img2>",
file => 'logo.gif'
});
$sender->Close() or die "Close failed! $Mail::Sender::Error\n";
} else {
die "Cannot send mail: $Mail::Sender::Error\n";
}

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Update:It does in fact appear to be the Outlook Issue referenced in the KB article in bbfu's post below. I ended up using Mime::Lite as jlongino suggested since the code was somewhat more succinct.

In reply to Sending Inline Images in e-mail with Mail::Sender (or getting them to print in Outlook) by vroom

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