Wise Perl Monks,

So in outlook and netscape mail clients you can send email with html formatting. How do you do this in perl. Currently I am using use Net::SMTP;

with code that looks like 
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('xxxxx', 
                Hello => 'elim@cnet.com');
my $tm = scalar localtime;
$smtp->mail('elim@cnet.com');
$smtp->to('elim@cnet.com');

$smtp->data();
# $smtp->datasend('To: ELI MARCUS', "\n");
$smtp->datasend('Subject: AUTO PERL EMAIL Database Facts', "\n");
$smtp->datasend("\n");
$smtp->datasend("This is an automated email providing you satistics",
" on the US Full Push Database maintained by the Western",
" Region Technical Consultants\n\nThis Data is valid as of $tm\n\n",
"@list\n\n");
$smtp->dataend();
$smtp->quit;
$sqlquery1 ->finish();        
# $sqlquery ->finish();
$CDS->disconnect || die "failed to disconnect\n";

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What would I have to do to get this into html format. Then when I build @list I could wrap the data in a table. Thanks for the help, Eli

In reply to Still New to Perl / html email by esolm

Title:
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and:  <code> code here </code>
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