You do not say how frequently you are going to run this script. Oddly enough, the easiest approach may well be simply to write a file full of html, using all the standard html tags to format it as you wish, display this page in a web browser and then CTRL-A, CTRL-C, CTRL-V to copy the entire page into your gmail compose page. A similar sequence of actions to copy and past the recipients into the to: field.

The alternatives are much harder work because email systems are keen to remove spam and so make it deliberately hard to write a simple script that will do the job. If you are not going to send this report out very often, you may never be able to recover the time spent on automating the sending reliably to make it worthwhile.

In reply to Re: How to send nicely formatted emails in Perl? by philiprbrenan
in thread How to send nicely formatted emails in Perl? by dr.jekyllandme

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