Folks, I'm having a tough time trying to get MIME::Lite to always sent both a HTML and TEXT email (so the client will always have something to display) and optionally have a attachment.

Here is pretty much what I have

my $message = MIME::Lite->build (
   From    =>'someemail,
   To=>'anotheremail,
   Subject=>'somesubject',
   Type    =>'multipart/alternative'
  );
  if ('i have a attachment') {
    $message->replace(Type    =>    'multipart/mixed');
    $message->attach(
    Type=> 'AUTO',
        Path=> $upload_file,
        Filename=>$basename,
        Disposition => 'attachment'
     );
   }
   $message->attach(Type=> 'TEXT',
                    Data=> $text
                    );
   $message->attach(Type=> 'text/html',
                    Data=> $html
                    );
   $message->send('smtp','000.000.000.000',Debug=>1,Timeout=>60,Port=>
+26);

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Currently with the above I always get a HTML/Text, but not the attachment. If I create/build the MIME::Lite object with "multipart/mixed", I will get the attachment but only the text version comes through (and the HTML is a 2nd attachment). It doesn't seem to matter how I create the MIME::Lite object (using new or build)

I feel like I just missing something stupid, but I have no idea what.

Any ideas? TIA!

In reply to MIME::Lite and Multipart by Analog

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