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in thread Encoding for MIME::Lite?

thanks, Clint!

I've tried it with use MIME::QuotedPrint;, with Data => $email_html and with and without this line:
$msg->attr('Encoding' => 'quoted-printable');
and it still generates this error in both cases:
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) faile
+d:

  webmaster@coreknowledge.org
    SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
    host mail.coreknowledge.org [216.12.92.18]: 500 Line too long

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any guidance you can offer would be AWESOME.

My old, very deprecated mail-lib.pl never caused this particular problem. :-( but of course it never handled HTML multipart/alternative email, either.
---Opally

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Re^5: Encoding for MIME::Lite?
by clinton (Priest) on Aug 23, 2007 at 20:04 UTC
    I didn't say use MIME::QuotedPrint - I said drop the qp_encode. Set the Encoding to whatever you want as per the docs in MIME::Lite, and the module will handle the encoding for you.

    Clint

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      hey, Clint, I'm sooo happy I can ask you about this...

      multipart/alternative cannot use quoted-printable encoding, per MIME::Lite error message I get when I try to do that. My problem is that our MS Exchange server sees a long string of text from my longer forms, >1000 chars, and rejects the email.

      I used to have this same problem with Zen Cart, and solved it by changed the encoding to quoted-printable, but I can't see how to do that with MIME::Lite, using multipart/alternative. The quoted-printable encoding is rejected.

      ---Opally
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        I haven't tried that for a while, but I don't remember there being a problem with using multipart/alternative with quoted printable encoding.

        That said, why don't you try dropping the encoding completely - MIME::Lite is very good at handling this stuff automatically.

        So try this: 

        
$msg = MIME::Lite->new(
    To      => $email_to,
    From    => $email_of_sender,
    Subject => $email_subject,
    Type    => 'multipart/alternative',
);
             
$msg->attach(
    Type => 'TEXT',
    Data => $email_body
);

$msg->attach(
    Type => 'text/html',
    Data => $email_html
);

$msg->send;

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        Clint

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