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Mail with HTML
Posted on 1998-11-04
I have the following script and it sends text mail just fine, but when I send html in the body and receive it with MS Outlook Express, it just gives html code. When I receive it with eudora 4, it gives the actual pictures etc. It is RFC 1521.
unless (open(SENDMAIL, ">$filename")){
print "Error opening email file.";
}
print SENDMAIL "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print SENDMAIL "From: $from\n";
print SENDMAIL "To: $to\n";
print SENDMAIL "Subject: $subj\n";
print SENDMAIL "Date: $thedate\n";
print SENDMAIL "\n";
print SENDMAIL "$body\n";
close SENDMAIL;
What do I need to add or change to make the Outlook Express convert the html to actual pictures? It must have something to do with content-type:.
unless (open(SENDMAIL, ">$filename")){
print "Error opening email file.";
}
print SENDMAIL "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print SENDMAIL "From: $from\n";
print SENDMAIL "To: $to\n";
print SENDMAIL "Subject: $subj\n";
print SENDMAIL "Date: $thedate\n";
print SENDMAIL "\n";
print SENDMAIL "$body\n";
close SENDMAIL;
What do I need to add or change to make the Outlook Express convert the html to actual pictures? It must have something to do with content-type:.
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Any chance you're running the HTML on a Unix box?
Secondly, I don't see how you're sending mail (you're writing to a file $filename, but what processing are you doing after closing the file?)
Secondly, I don't see how you're sending mail (you're writing to a file $filename, but what processing are you doing after closing the file?)
Here is the entire script:
require "cgi-lib.pl";
require "ctime.pl";
&ReadParse(*input);
$body = $input{'bod'};
$from = $input{'email'};
$to = $input{'to'};
$subj = $input{'subj'};
$thedate = &ctime(time);
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
$filename = "C:\\exchsrvr\\imcdata\\Pi
unless (open(SENDMAIL, ">$filename")){
print "Error opening email file.";
}
print SENDMAIL "From: $from\n";
print SENDMAIL "To: $to\n";
print SENDMAIL "Subject: $subj\n";
print SENDMAIL "Date: $thedate\n";
print SENDMAIL "\n";
print SENDMAIL "$body\n";
close SENDMAIL;
$body is a html page. If received in Eudora 4 the page shows up normally with all tables, pictures, etc. In MS Outlook it shows only html code.
require "cgi-lib.pl";
require "ctime.pl";
&ReadParse(*input);
$body = $input{'bod'};
$from = $input{'email'};
$to = $input{'to'};
$subj = $input{'subj'};
$thedate = &ctime(time);
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
$filename = "C:\\exchsrvr\\imcdata\\Pi
unless (open(SENDMAIL, ">$filename")){
print "Error opening email file.";
}
print SENDMAIL "From: $from\n";
print SENDMAIL "To: $to\n";
print SENDMAIL "Subject: $subj\n";
print SENDMAIL "Date: $thedate\n";
print SENDMAIL "\n";
print SENDMAIL "$body\n";
close SENDMAIL;
$body is a html page. If received in Eudora 4 the page shows up normally with all tables, pictures, etc. In MS Outlook it shows only html code.
What do you know.... there it is...
You're doing:
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
$filename = "C:\\exchsrvr\\imcdata\\Pi
unless (open(SENDMAIL, ">$filename")){
print "Error opening email file.";
}
print SENDMAIL "From: $from\n";
which print's the header to stdout (wherever that might be). Instead, do
$filename = "C:\\exchsrvr\\imcdata\\Pi
unless (open(SENDMAIL, ">$filename")){
print "Error opening email file.";
}
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print SENDMAIL "From: $from\n";
which will tell exchange that this really is html
You're doing:
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
$filename = "C:\\exchsrvr\\imcdata\\Pi
unless (open(SENDMAIL, ">$filename")){
print "Error opening email file.";
}
print SENDMAIL "From: $from\n";
which print's the header to stdout (wherever that might be). Instead, do
$filename = "C:\\exchsrvr\\imcdata\\Pi
unless (open(SENDMAIL, ">$filename")){
print "Error opening email file.";
}
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print SENDMAIL "From: $from\n";
which will tell exchange that this really is html
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