EMail problem in outlook

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

Dear All, I want to send HTML email as inline msg and one or more attachments. It goes fine in other email client but in outlook my HTML inline msg comes as attachment. can anybody gives me valid reason why it is so? OR does anybody have different idea other than than below code ?

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Mail::Sender;


$sender = new Mail::Sender

######### MS Exchange SMTP server ####################

{smtp => '', from => ''};




$recipients = "";


if (ref $sender->OpenMultipart({
                from => '', to => $recipients,
                subject => 'chandan Embedded Image Test',
                boundary => 'boundary-test-1',
                multipart => 'related'})) {


##################### I have to send this part msg as inline #########
+#############

               $sender ->Attach(
                         {description => 'html body',
                         ctype => 'text/html; charset=us-ascii',
                         #encoding => '7bit',
                         disposition => 'inline',
                         file => 'file2.html',
                });


################### I  have to send this part msg as Attachment ######
+###############

                $sender ->Attach(
                         {description => 'html body',
                         ctype => 'text/html; charset=us-ascii',
                         #ctype => 'text/html',
                         #encoding => '7bit',
                         #disposition => 'inline',
                         file => 'auth_sasl.pl',

                 });


                $sender->Close() or die "Close failed! $Mail::Sender::
+Error\n";
        } else {
                die "Cannot send mail: $Mail::Sender::Error\n";
        }

        exit;
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Re: EMail problem in outlook by james2vegas (Chaplain) on Aug 25, 2009 at 10:30 UTC
What part of your code does not work? For attachments set `disposition => 'attachment; filename='` and for inline set `disposition => 'inline; filename='`. If you need to send a file as the message body, set `disposition => 'NONE'`. This is from the Mail::Sender documentation. Also for reference Content disposition Types Also note that you need to set a Content-ID on any resources you need to refer to in your body (like images), e.g.: `disposition => "inline; filename => \"img.gif";\r\nContent-ID: <img>",` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: EMail problem in outlook by james2vegas (Chaplain) on Aug 25, 2009 at 12:15 UTC
Work off this if you still have no luck: use Mail::Sender; eval { Mail::Sender->new( {from => 'user@domain.local', smtp => 'mailserver.domain.local'}) ->OpenMultipart({ to => 'user@domain.remote', subject => 'Subject Here!', multipart => 'related', }) ->Part({ ctype => 'text/html', disposition => 'NONE', msg => <<'END'}) <html><body> This is where your HTML Page will be <img src="cid:img1"> </body></html> END ->Attach({ description => 'image descr', ctype => 'image/jpeg', encoding => 'base64', disposition => "inline; filename=*;\r\nContent-ID: <img1>", file => '/path/to/image.jpg' }) ->Close(); } or print "Error sending mail: $Mail::Sender::Error\n"; [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: EMail problem in outlook by chandanperl (Novice) on Aug 25, 2009 at 12:47 UTC
Hey, I have changed your code accordingly but i am not able to send emails to any account	[reply]
Re^4: EMail problem in outlook by marto (Cardinal) on Aug 25, 2009 at 13:20 UTC
Re^5: EMail problem in outlook by chandanperl (Novice) on Aug 25, 2009 at 14:36 UTC
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Re^2: EMail problem in outlook by chandanperl (Novice) on Aug 25, 2009 at 11:43 UTC
#!/usr/bin/perl use Mail::Sender; $sender = new Mail::Sender ######### MS Exchange SMTP server #################### {smtp => '', from => ''}; $recipients = ""; if (ref $sender->OpenMultipart({ from => '', to => $recipients, subject => 'chandan Embedded Image Test', boundary => 'boundary-test-1', multipart => 'related'})) { ##################### I have to send this part msg as inline ######### +############# $sender ->Attach( {description => 'html body', ctype => 'text/html; charset=us-ascii', #encoding => '7bit', disposition => 'NONE', file => 'file2.html', }); ################### I have to send this part msg as Attachment ###### +############### $sender ->Attach( {description => 'html body', ctype => 'text/html; charset=us-ascii', #ctype => 'text/html', #encoding => '7bit', #disposition => 'inline', file => 'auth_sasl.pl', }); $sender->Close() or die "Close failed! $Mail::Sender:: +Error\n"; } else { die "Cannot send mail: $Mail::Sender::Error\n"; } exit; [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: EMail problem in outlook by Anonymous Monk on Aug 25, 2009 at 10:16 UTC
can anybody gives me valid reason why it is so? Contact microsoft?	[reply]
Re^2: EMail problem in outlook by chandanperl (Novice) on Aug 25, 2009 at 10:27 UTC
When I am sending mail Linux box to outlook it goes fine but when I am sending mail via MS Exchange server it gives me this error. I am using Mime::Lite+Net::Smtp(or Mail::Sender)	[reply]
Re^3: EMail problem in outlook by james2vegas (Chaplain) on Aug 25, 2009 at 10:35 UTC
That wasn't quite what your original post said. There should be no difference. Both servers should send the mail as is, and neither should show the html mail as your message (because of the wrong disposition type) in Outlook.	[reply]
Re^4: EMail problem in outlook by chandanperl (Novice) on Aug 25, 2009 at 10:43 UTC
Re: EMail problem in outlook by tokpela (Chaplain) on Aug 25, 2009 at 19:44 UTC
`{smtp => '', from => ''};` [download] You haven't specified an SMTP server to use.	[reply] [d/l]