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Format E-Mail as HTML
Is anyone aware of a tool which will allow me to format Unix Mail as html? I need to be able to deliver mail in a browser ( ala Hotmail ).
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That's backing up what I thought I suppose .... do you have any recommendations of commercial systems?
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IF YOU WISH TO USE PHP AND SENDMAIL IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS AT THE BEGINING:
$message = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN><html><he
width = 400px height = 140px></center>\r\n<br>";
YOUR TEXT MESSAGE HERE:
$message .= "Your text message";
YOUR FROM LIKE THIS:
$from = "From: someone@somewhere.org\r\n Content-Type: text/html; charset = iso-8859-1\r\n"
YOUR DESTINATION LIKE THIS:
$to = "joebob@joebob.com";
YOUR SUBJECT LIKE THIS:
$sub = "enlarge a body part";
SEND IT LIKE THIS:
mail($to, $sub, $message, $from);
BEWARE 1--IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF TEXT ADD '\r\n' IN FRONT OF ANY '<br>' OR ELSE MS IE WILL RANDOMLY PLACE AN '!' SOMEWHERE IN YOUR TEXT WHEN SOMEONE VIEWS YOUR MESSAGE.
BEWARE 2--HOTMAIL(S**KS) HOTMAIL WILL RECJECT YOUR MESSAGE IF A BUTTERFLY FLAPS IT'S WINGS IN BRAZIL. I MYSELF FIND THIS EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING I HAVE A LIST OF 2500 CUSTOMERS AND HAVE OFTEN HAD HOTMAIL SIMPLY DROP A MESSAGE NO BOUNCE BACK NO NOTICE. IF YOU HAVE A RELATIVELY SMALL AMOUNT OF HOTMAIL ADDRESSES TO COVER YOU CAN BUILD AN ARRAY OF OUTLOOK MESSAGE ID'S BY EMAILING TO YOURSELF AND COPYING TO YOUR EMAIL RPOGRAM THIS WILL HELP FAKE OUT THEIR SPAM FILTERS AS THEY SEEM TO LIKE MESSAGES FROM OUTLOOK, I WONDER WHY?
$message = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN><html><he
width = 400px height = 140px></center>\r\n<br>";
YOUR TEXT MESSAGE HERE:
$message .= "Your text message";
YOUR FROM LIKE THIS:
$from = "From: someone@somewhere.org\r\n Content-Type: text/html; charset = iso-8859-1\r\n"
YOUR DESTINATION LIKE THIS:
$to = "joebob@joebob.com";
YOUR SUBJECT LIKE THIS:
$sub = "enlarge a body part";
SEND IT LIKE THIS:
mail($to, $sub, $message, $from);
BEWARE 1--IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF TEXT ADD '\r\n' IN FRONT OF ANY '<br>' OR ELSE MS IE WILL RANDOMLY PLACE AN '!' SOMEWHERE IN YOUR TEXT WHEN SOMEONE VIEWS YOUR MESSAGE.
BEWARE 2--HOTMAIL(S**KS) HOTMAIL WILL RECJECT YOUR MESSAGE IF A BUTTERFLY FLAPS IT'S WINGS IN BRAZIL. I MYSELF FIND THIS EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING I HAVE A LIST OF 2500 CUSTOMERS AND HAVE OFTEN HAD HOTMAIL SIMPLY DROP A MESSAGE NO BOUNCE BACK NO NOTICE. IF YOU HAVE A RELATIVELY SMALL AMOUNT OF HOTMAIL ADDRESSES TO COVER YOU CAN BUILD AN ARRAY OF OUTLOOK MESSAGE ID'S BY EMAILING TO YOURSELF AND COPYING TO YOUR EMAIL RPOGRAM THIS WILL HELP FAKE OUT THEIR SPAM FILTERS AS THEY SEEM TO LIKE MESSAGES FROM OUTLOOK, I WONDER WHY?
Meanwhile, the easiest way to do this is just put each mail into a text file and blast it out. You won't get formatting of embedded tags or proper MIME attachments, but you won't get the security headaches that go with them either.
Doing a simple HTML conversion would be easy in a shell script, but getting MIME attachments right sounds very difficult.