Solution

I ended up finding my own solution to this one. Instead of using Mail::Outlook, I decided to use Win32::OLE and configure it to a new outlook application object. I don't know a lot about OLE, but the info. I found about interfacing it with Outlook was very useful: found here.

Basically, that allowed me to set two new message behaviors (objects? parameters?) via the following: 

use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Outlook';

my $outlook = new Win32::OLE('Outlook.Application') or die "Could not 
+open Outlook Application!\n";

my $msg = $outlook -> CreateItem(0);
    unless ($msg){
        die "Outlook is not running, cannot send mail.\n";
    }

$msg -> {'To'}         = 'addreass@domain.com';
$msg -> {'Subject'}     = 'Important Subject Matter';
$msg -> {'BodyFormat'} = 'olFormatHTML';
$msg -> {'HTMLBody'} = 'Some text I want to display <a href=http://goo
+gle.com>With Links in HTML</a> embedded in that text\n'

$msg -> Send();

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So setting the 'BodyFormat' and 'HTMLBody' did the trick.

Original Problem

Howdy All,

So, I'm writing an automatic e-mail notification system for my office. We run Windows 7 and Outlook is the only e-mail program that I am aware of existing on our systems. I've been trying to use the Mail::Outlook module to send my e-mails. The problem is that I can't seem to find a way to insert hyperlinks into the e-mail, that display text other than the url. So if I want to insert a link to Google, I can just post: 

$msg -> Body('http://gooogle.com')

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However, if I want to link to Google and make it read as, "Search Engine," I'm not sure there's a way to do that. Other mailer modules seem to get around this by formatting the links in HTML. But I don't see a way to format the message as HTML using this module. Does anyone know if there is a way to do that?

If not, does anyone have any suggestions on better e-mail modules for use with a Windows 7 system? (Most of the modules I've found send e-mails using the sendmail folder on Linux boxes. I don't know how to mimic that functionality on Windows boxes).

Cheers,
Brady C. Jackson

In reply to Hyperlinks in Mail::Outlook Module by BJ_Covert_Action

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