I'm getting "500 Line too long" errors from our own local MS Exchange mail server for our MIME::Lite prepped email from web forms.

I tried adding Encoding => 'quoted-printable' to my MIME::Lite->new statement, but it is illegal to use quoted-printable with multipart/alternative. I was so happy to get multipart/alternative working! But it's pooping out on my long forms.

Ideas about why the HTML code for the email is all strung out in one line, and how to prevent that in the HTML code itself?

Or, is there a different way I should handle my mail preparation from my forms? (something other than MIME:Lite? Easy is good for me, I'm a real n00b.) I REALLY want to use multipart/alternative!

I've talked to our local mail server admins, and they feel that 1000 char lines should be sufficient, I don't blame them.

---Opally

In reply to Encoding for MIME::Lite? by Opally

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