I would expect that MIME::Base64 would come in handy. The answer to this is probably similar to the answer to the question 'How do I attach a file to an e-mail', in which case you should hearken to some sort of MIME or Uuencode module to convert a binary file into something able to travel through the binary-unfriendly NNTP channels.

It appears from a brief perusal of the NNTPClient documentation that you will have to turn your plain HTML and images into one single message body and send that in your post() call.

Anyone who has more experience with this module or NNTP posting through Perl is welcome to correct me.

In reply to Re: nntp posting (Moved from Q&A) by chromatic
in thread nntp posting (Moved from Q&A) by Anonymous Monk

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