sending an email using sendmail so that it looks like a webpage and not html

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Re: sending an email using sendmail so that it looks like a webpage and not html by monkey_boy (Priest) on Jul 07, 2004 at 12:13 UTC
You need to set the mime type , use something like this: `use Mail::Mailer; my $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new("sendmail"); $mailer->open({ From => '$you', To => $mailto, Subject => 'foo', 'Content-type'=> 'text/html' }) or warn "Can't open: $!\n"; print $mailer $mail_string; $mailer->close();` [download] I should really do something about this apathy ... but i just cant be bothered	[reply] [d/l]
Re: sending an email using sendmail so that it looks like a webpage and not html by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 07, 2004 at 12:21 UTC
You may get away with adding a `Content-Type: text/html` header to the mail message but I would suggest that probably the easiest way of doing this is to use the module MIME::Lite - this can be as easy as: `use MIME::Lite; + my $msg = MIME::Lite->new( From =>'jns@localhost', To =>'jonathan@localhost', Subject =>'Test', Type =>'text/html', Data =>'<h1>THis is a test</h1>'); $msg->send();` [download] Of course you would need to add the extra code to loop through the list. /J\	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: sending an email using sendmail so that it looks like a webpage and not html by edan (Curate) on Jul 07, 2004 at 12:14 UTC
You'll need to set the "Content-Type" header to "text/html". Something like: `Mail::Sendmail::sendmail( To => '...', # ... 'Content-Type' => 'text/html', );` [download] --> -- edan	[reply] [d/l]
Re: sending an email using sendmail so that it looks like a webpage and not html by cosmicsoup (Beadle) on Jul 07, 2004 at 12:56 UTC
I use the following code to read in an html prepared file and send it in the appropriate format. My understanding is that you can not use the email_template and use a link instead. #!/usr/bin/perl use MIME::Lite::HTML; $today = `date -I`; chop($today); $email_template = "/data/staging/eod/andy/weekly_file.$today.html"; #HEADER $msg = MIME::Lite->new( From =>'Admin@mysite.com', To =>'person1@somesite.com, person2@somesite.com', Subject =>"Daily Status - $today", Type =>'multipart/related', ); #BODY open(TEMPLATE, $email_template); while (<TEMPLATE>){ $buffer .= $_; } close(TEMPLATE); $msg->attach(Type => 'text/html', Data=> $buffer); #SEND THE EMAIL $msg->send; [download] I hope this helps. Louis	[reply] [d/l]
Re: sending an email using sendmail so that it looks like a webpage and not html by ishnid (Monk) on Jul 07, 2004 at 14:38 UTC
MIME::Lite can create multipart HTML emails (with images included). Might be worth a look.	[reply]
Re: sending an email using sendmail so that it looks like a webpage and not html by Ven'Tatsu (Deacon) on Jul 07, 2004 at 14:17 UTC
If I read your question right your seeing the HTML source when you send through sendmail not the rendered HTML correct? The solution to this is not really perl related, you need to add a `Content-Type: text/html;` headder to your message.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: sending an email using sendmail so that it looks like a webpage and not html by ercparker (Hermit) on Jul 07, 2004 at 16:27 UTC
you can do what Ven'Tatsu suggested like this: `open (MAIL, "\|/path/to/sendmail -oi -t") \|\| die "Couldn't open sendmai +l: $!\n"; print MAIL "From: user\@somedomain.com\n"; print MAIL "To: $recip\n"; print MAIL "Subject: whatever\n"; print MAIL "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print MAIL qqhtml content would go here; close(MAIL);` [download] hope that helps	[reply] [d/l]
Re: sending an email using sendmail so that it looks like a webpage and not html by zentara (Cardinal) on Jul 08, 2004 at 14:15 UTC
You can send html-mail with inline photos, and you can put a link to your webpage in the mail, here is a sample. The trick is the cid tag. Hope it helps. #!/usr/bin/perl -w # Send HTML document with inline images use strict; use MIME::Lite; # Create a new MIME Lite object my $msg = MIME::Lite->new( From =>'foo@foo123.com', To =>'whoever@wherever.com', Subject =>'Hi', Type =>'multipart/related'); # Add the body to your HTML message $msg->attach(Type => 'text/html', Data => qq{ <BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF> <H2>Hi</H2> <P ALIGN="left"> This is an HTML message. </P> <P ALIGN="left"> <A HREF="http://foo123.com/">Here's a link</A>. </P> <P ALIGN="middle"> <IMG SRC="cid:2uni2.jpg"> </P> </BODY> }); # Attach the image $msg->attach(Type => 'image/jpg', Id => '2uni2.jpg', Path => '2uni2.jpg'); # Send it $msg->send(); [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply] [d/l]
Re: sending an email using sendmail so that it looks like a webpage and not html by neilwatson (Priest) on Jul 07, 2004 at 16:16 UTC
I built this Cadillac of email programs for some marketing folks to use. They are not UNIX savvy so I added losts of logging and error checking. Neil Watson watson-wilson.ca	[reply]