in reply to problem w/ MIME::Lite and multipart/alternative emails

Hmm, works fine for me (what exactly do you mean by "isn't coming through"?):

use MIME::Lite;
$email='me@home.com';
$htmlMail = "<html></html>";
$textMail = "texting";

my $mailObj = MIME::Lite->new(
                              From    => 'admin@domain.com',
                              To      => $email,
                              Subject => "subject line here",
                              Type    => 'multipart/alternative'
                          );

$mailObj->attach(
                 Type    => 'text/html',
                 Data    => $htmlMail,
             );
$mailObj->attach(
                 Type    => 'text/plain',
                 Data    => $textMail,
             );

print $mailObj->as_string();

__OUTPUT__
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_----------=_1138042047
+111520"
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 3.01 (F2.72; T1.15; A1.62; B3.04; Q3.03)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:47:27 UT
From: admin@domain.com
To: me@home.com
Subject: subject line here

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--_----------=_1138042047111520
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Length: 13
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: text/html

<html></html>
--_----------=_1138042047111520
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Length: 7
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: text/plain

texting
--_----------=_1138042047111520--

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There are ten types of people: those that understand binary and those that don't.

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Re^2: problem w/ MIME::Lite and multipart/alternative emails
by geektron (Curate) on Jan 23, 2006 at 18:56 UTC
    Hmm, works fine for me (what exactly do you mean by "isn't coming through"?):

    I'm not getting the rendered display of the message in my mailreader. I've looked at the source, and it is, in fact, there ... but my mailreader (Thunderbird) isn't rendering it).

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      So this is actually a Thunderbird question, not a Perl question, right ;-)? With multipart/alternative you'd expect the client to only show one of the alternative contents (that's what that Content-Type is for). Go to your "View"->"Message body" menu in Thunderbird and fiddle with the settings there, it gives you some options on what you want displayed.


      There are ten types of people: those that understand binary and those that don't.
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        Actually, it's more of a bug with Thunderbird, apparently. I *do* have my settings so that the original HTML is displayed, but Thunderbird isn't displaying it.
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      I had this exact same problem when trying to create a program which would email Lotus Notes users.

      It has been a while, but if I remember correctly the solution was to send the source in the text portion of the message and include the HTML as a multipart attachment. It was something very odd and hacky, but it solved the problem for Notes. If this is something that you truly need to see in Thunderbird, trying doing a combination of attaching one part and putting the other in the base message.

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        actually, i found a solution after searching through the mozillazine.org forums.

        the order of the MIME types is important to Thunderbird. irritating at best and causes 'broken' emails at worst. the specific link i found to help solve the problem is here

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