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andy7t User Jan 29, 2004, 8:44 AM Post #1 of 4 (427 views) HTML in Sendmail Can't Post Hello, I need to send a HTML email using Sendmail. How do i do this. Everytime is send it, i just get the code in Outlook Express. Andrew

davorg Thaumaturge / Moderator Jan 29, 2004, 10:38 AM Post #2 of 4 (426 views) Re: [andy7t] HTML in Sendmail [In reply to] Can't Post 1/ Are you sure you really want to do that? Many spam recognition systems automatically assume that pure-HTML email is spam. By sending HTML email you may be preventing many people from reading it. 2/ If you want to avoid this then you should send a properly formatted MIME message with an HTML version together with the same message in a text version. 3/ The best way to do this is to use MIME::Lite. 4/ If you want to avoid this advice, then the simplest solution to your problem is probably to include the correct Content-type header. -- Dave Cross, Perl Hacker, Trainer and Writer http://www.dave.org.uk/ Get more help at Perl Monks

andy7t User Jan 29, 2004, 12:22 PM Post #3 of 4 (425 views) Re: [davorg] HTML in Sendmail [In reply to] Can't Post Hello. Thanks for the advice. I will look into MIME::Lite. However, i do also have an opt-in system for either HTML or Text emails. How do i set the content-type? This is my code: open (SENDMAIL, "| $sendmail -t") or print "Can't Open"; print SENDMAIL "Subject: $subject\n"; print SENDMAIL "From: $from\n"; print SENDMAIL "To: $to\n\n"; print SENDMAIL "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; This doesn't work. Thanks

davorg Thaumaturge / Moderator Jan 29, 2004, 12:44 PM Post #4 of 4 (424 views) Re: [andy7t] HTML in Sendmail [In reply to] Can't Post It doesn't work because you aren't sending a content-type header. What looks like a content-header in your code is part of the email body. The headers are separated from the body by an blank line. The headers finish with the first "\n\n" that you print. -- Dave Cross, Perl Hacker, Trainer and Writer http://www.dave.org.uk/ Get more help at Perl Monks

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