Perhaps I missread your reply, but it seems like the two examples simply create a single 'multipart/mixed' MIME. The first one sends some plain text and then attaches an HTML file. The second on sends some plain text and then attaches a word file (even though Type=> is set to octet-stream and not 'msword'.

What I'm looking to do is created a formatted e-mail body complete with all html code with a fall back to a simple plain text message if the receipient doesn't have a current email browser that can view HTML e-mails. In addition to those two parts, I also want to attach multiple attachements.

It seems that the correct way to do this is to set the header to 'multipart/mixed' and then define one of the multiparts as 'multipart/alternative' instead of 'text/plain' or 'text/html'. Within that sub-part, the 'text/plain' and 'text/html' are then created. Once the sub-part is "closed-out", then the attachments are added to the original 'multipart/mixed'
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Filmo the Klown

In reply to Re: Re: Multi-Part email with Attachments using MIME::Lite by filmo
in thread Multi-Part email with Attachments using MIME::Lite by filmo

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