in reply to Send HTML mail to Outlook

are you sure that you send a right formatted HTML mail...
have you set the MIME-Version? here is an sample of a well formed MIME HTML mail: 
Subject: Some Subject
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:26:50 +0100
Message-ID: <E1E811923F2F054DB62E330FE5B3720544D7A7@sub.host.dom>
From: "Body, Some" <some.body@host.dom>
To: "Body, Any" <any.body@host.dom>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
    charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">This is a Test.</FONT>
</P>

<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Bye,</FONT>

<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Some Body</FONT>
</P>

</BODY>
</HTML>

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Re: Re: Send HTML mail to Outlook
by cosmicsoup (Beadle) on Apr 06, 2004 at 21:11 UTC
    I have entered the exact same META tags within the <head> tags. On Outlook it still displays it as code. On AOL it displays this in the html email: 
    
<html><head><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=
+us-ascii"></head>

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    By the way, I just got MIME::Lite::HTML installed, although it doesn't seem to send my HTML to the email address. I have a perl script called weekly.pl that reads in data from a flat file and puts it into a file in HTML format. I then use the unix mail command to send the file to a list of recipients. When you attach a file via MIME, does it display it in an email or do you have to download it?

    Any and all suggestions are appreciated.

    thanks,
    Louis
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[d/l]
      You can't expect Outlook to understand that this file is in html by looking for the mime type specified inside a <META> tag: the reason is that text/html should be specified on the envelope and not inside the content.
      What you should do is send the correct mime header before sending the content: 
      Content-type: text/html

This is slurped as <b>html</b> by my mail client!

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      should give you the idea!
      Ant9000
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[d/l]
        I'm sorry, but I guess I don't understand. If I begin my html code with Content-type: text/html, it just shows this as the first line of the email. How do I put it on the envelope?

        Thanks,
        Louis
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