Good day bros. I am trying to get Mail::Sendmail to send a multi-part MIME message containing an HTML and a text version of the same message. I am cribbing code from from the Perl Sendmail FAQ which I have interpreted thus: 
sub sendmessage {
    my ($html,$text,$recipient,$reportdate) = @_;
    my $boundary = "====" . time() . "====";
    my %mail = (
             from => 'foo@bar.org',
             to => $recipient,
             subject => "A message from me",
             'content-type' => "multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$bou
+ndary\""
            );
    
    my $plain = encode_qp $text;
    $html = encode_entities($html);
    $boundary = '--'.$boundary;
    
    $mail{body} = <<END_OF_BODY;
$boundary
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

$plain

$boundary
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

$html
$boundary--
END_OF_BODY
    
    sendmail(%mail) || die "Error: $Mail::Sendmail::error\n";
    return;
}

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When I run this, it sends the message fine, but when I open the message in Outlook it shows the raw HTML instead of recognizing it as HTML. Here are the relevant header fields from the mail client (with some info starred out to protect the innocent, namely me): 
Return-path: <info@*****.org>
Envelope-to: corman@*****.com
Subject: A message from me
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="====1214608857===="
To: corman@*****.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:20:57 -0600
From: info@*****.org

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Anybody know what's going wrong here?

Steve

In reply to Mail::Sendmail Multipart MIME isn't working by cormanaz

Title:
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