Re: Cannot get Net::SMTP to print file path with spaces properly

It sounds like it's entirely up to the email client on how it parses for links ... will it work to send a HTML link?

my $s = "\\\\server\\weekly reports\\report.txt";
my $url = $s;
$url =~ s#\\#/#g;
$url = 'file:/' . $url;
$smtp->datasend( sprintf('<a href="%s">%s</a>', $url, $s) );
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Update: added the proper file:/// syntax

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Re^2: Cannot get Net::SMTP to print file path with spaces properly by yankeeblue (Novice) on Jul 13, 2005 at 15:31 UTC
I figured it out (finally found it in Outlook help). I needed to put angle brackets around the path. `$smtp->datasend("<\\\\server\\weekly reports\\report.txt>");`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Cannot get Net::SMTP to print file path with spaces properly by yankeeblue (Novice) on Jul 13, 2005 at 14:45 UTC
Thanks for the info but that didn't work. It showed up in the e-mail as: `<a href="file:///server/weekly status/report.txt">\\server\weekly status\report.txt</a>`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Cannot get Net::SMTP to print file path with spaces properly by davidrw (Prior) on Jul 13, 2005 at 14:49 UTC
what is the target email client? is support for html avilable/turned on?	[reply]
Re^4: Cannot get Net::SMTP to print file path with spaces properly by yankeeblue (Novice) on Jul 13, 2005 at 15:14 UTC
I'm using Outlook 2002, sending the mail via the SMTP server. On the client that I'm running the script on I have HTML turned on. Maybe the problem is with the SMTP server?	[reply]
Re^5: Cannot get Net::SMTP to print file path with spaces properly by yankeeblue (Novice) on Jul 13, 2005 at 15:25 UTC