Hello, I have this task before me and I am not sure how to approach it, hoping that someone here could help me out. I have to generate a report and have to send it out by email to whomever is on the list of recipients. So at this point I have my data and now all I need to do is send it out. I will be doing this on a weekly basis and cron will handle running my script. The only thing is I need to add some format to the report such as making some keywords bold, adding some color, and creating tabular data. I realize that I may need to use HTML and CSS to do this. This is ok, but I am just not sure what module to use. My mail client is Outlook. If anyone can give me some examples and or suggestions on how to do this, it would be very helpful. Thank you for your time.

In reply to How to send nicely formatted emails in Perl? by dr.jekyllandme

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