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in thread Send HTML mail to Outlook

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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Re: Re: Re: Send HTML mail to Outlook
by ant9000 (Monk) on Apr 06, 2004 at 23:25 UTC
    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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