Re: gmail -- sending out html messages

If you can send ascii text mail, you should be able to change the Content-type to text/html and generate your html as a here-doc, then just put the here-doc in your datasend method. Usually it's recommended to generate your html with MIME::Lite, then use your TLS datasend method to send the MIME::Lite object.

Here is a completely untested example, that should show you the basic idea, based on the example code from the TLS module. You first create your html with MIME::Lite, then use TLS's datasend to send the MIME::Lite with the as_string method.

use strict;
use MIME::Lite;
use Net::SMTP::TLS;
 
# Send HTML document with inline images
# Create a new MIME Lite object

my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
   From    =>'foo@gmail.com',
   To      =>'whoever@wherever.com',
   Subject =>'Hi',
   Type    =>'multipart/related');

# Add the body to your HTML message
$msg->attach(Type => 'text/html',
Data => qq{ <BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>
<H2>Hi</H2>
<P ALIGN="left">
This is an HTML message.
</P>
<P ALIGN="left">
<A HREF="http://foo123.com/">Here's a link</A>.
</P>
<P ALIGN="middle">
<IMG SRC="cid:2uni2.jpg">
</P>
</BODY> });

# Attach the image
$msg->attach(Type => 'image/jpg',
       Id   => '2uni2.jpg',
       Path => '2uni2.jpg');

# Send it with TLS

my $mailer = new Net::SMTP::TLS(
        'gmail.com',
        Port    =>      465, 
        User    =>      'foo',
        Password=>      's3cr3t');
 $mailer->mail('foo@gmail.com');
 $mailer->to('whoever@wherever.com');
 $mailer->data;

# this is where you send the MIME::Lite object
 $mailer->datasend(  $msg->as_string  );


 $mailer->dataend;
 $mailer->quit;
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