Suggested Choice for Sending Mail?

jgamble has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have to write an extension to an existing program. This will involve writing files that are (probably) HTML-formatted, then invoking a separate process that will e-mail them to the clients (newspapers).

I'm going through the riches that are CPAN, and I'm having trouble narrowing down my choices. For this task, all I need¹ is something that will mail the text with a Content-Type of "text/html". Is there a pure-perl module that will do that simply?

Thanks,
-john

1. Assuming I'm not stupidly overly-simplifying the problem.

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Re: Suggested Choice for Sending Mail? by imp (Priest) on Aug 21, 2006 at 19:56 UTC
I'm fond of MIME::Lite.	[reply]
Re^2: Suggested Choice for Sending Mail? by jgamble (Pilgrim) on Aug 21, 2006 at 20:32 UTC
Thanks, I'm studying it now and it looks good. -john	[reply]
Re: Suggested Choice for Sending Mail? by jdtoronto (Prior) on Aug 21, 2006 at 20:19 UTC
MIME::Lite is good, or their is the MIME duct-tape package: MIME::Tools. Depending on what we are doing we may use MIME::Tools to build the multi-part MIME entity and then use Net::SMTP or Net::SMTP_auth to actually handle the sending part, unless we are using the local sendmail on a *nix box. jdtoronto	[reply]
Re^2: Suggested Choice for Sending Mail? by jgamble (Pilgrim) on Aug 21, 2006 at 20:30 UTC
Thanks. I didn't even think of using "Mime" in the CPAN search box. The remainder of your suggestion is very helpful too, since I forgot to mention that this is going to be done on a MS-Windows box, hopefully of recent vintage. Thanks again, -john	[reply]