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MIME::Lite::TT::HTMLProblem - Unable to see HTML images on the mail client

Hi There,

I am using MIME::Lite::TT::HTML Perl module to send an HTML based email. HTML file contains a header image and footer image and the content within. When I send an email using this module, I can see on the mail client only the text content and not the header and footer images.

- I am sure the images are in the same path as the html files is and as well I tried giving absolute path of images in the HTML file as well. But nothing works.

Can some one guide me on what I need to do so that I can see header and footer images when I see the mail in my mail client ?

Thanks

test.pl
----------
 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
use MIME::Lite::TT::HTML; 
 
my %params; 
 
$params{first_name} = 'foo'; 
$params{last_name}  = 'bar'; 
$params{date}    = 'Oct 20, 2008';
 
my %options; 
$options{INCLUDE_PATH} = '/path/to/templates'; 
 
my $msg = MIME::Lite::TT::HTML->new( 
            From        =>  'x@abc.com',
            To          =>  'y@abc.com', 
            Cc          =>  'z@abc.com', 
            Subject     =>  'Your recent purchase', 
            Template    =>  {
                                #text    =>  'text.txt',
                                html    =>  'test.html',
                            },
            TmplOptions =>  \%options, 
            TmplParams  =>  \%params, 
); 
 
$msg->attr("content-type" => "multipart/mixed");
 
 # send the email
MIME::Lite->send('smtp', 'smtp.ss.xyz.com', Timeout => 60);
$msg->send; 
print "Ok!\n";
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
test.html
----------
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>SPOT Satellite Messenger</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body,td,th {
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	color: #333333;
}
body {
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
}
a {
	color: #333333;
	text-decoration: none;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
 
<body>
<p><img src="/images/header.jpg" width="719" height="91" /></p>
<blockquote>
  <p>Dear [% first_name %],</p>
  <p>Thank you for your continued service with X<br />
    [% date %]
    .</p>
  <p>Thank you,</p>
  <p>Customer Care<br />
  </p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p> </p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
</blockquote>
<p><img src="/images/footer.jpg" width="720" height="44" border="0" usemap="#Map" />
<map name="Map" id="Map"><area shape="rect" coords="572,14,708,34" href="http://www.xyz.com" />
</map></p>
</body>
</html>

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Tobias

Hi !

Is one solution :

Tell my it's satisfy to you.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>SPOT Satellite Messenger</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>

<body>
<img src="http://www.yoursite.com/images/header.jpg" width="719" height="91" />
<blockquote>
Dear [% first_name %],
Thank you for your continued service with X 
[% date %]
.
Thank you,
Customer Care 

 
 
 
 
 
</blockquote>
<img src="http://www.yoursite.com/images/footer.jpg" width="720" height="44" border="0" usemap="#Map" />
<map name="Map" id="Map"><area shape="rect" coords="572,14,708,34" href="http://www.xyz.com" />
</map>
</body>
</html>

hSindhu

ASKER

Hi Shiva,

I was looking for how we can get the images on the email client using use MIME::Lite::TT::HTML; . Is it that you missed the PERL Code? I am only seeing the HTML template. Please let me know. If possible can you paste the full code snippet.

Thanks

hSindhu

ASKER

Tobias

Hi hSindhu !

Yes I don't have put the Perl code because I don't have change them. You have two solution. First I think is to attach the image in the mail or choose one full link like http://something.com.

I have give you the second solution.

Now is the first :

test.pl
----------

use strict;
use warnings;
use MIME::Lite::TT::HTML;

my %params;

$params{first_name} = 'foo';
$params{last_name} = 'bar';
$params{date} = 'Oct 20, 2008';

my %options;
$options{INCLUDE_PATH} = '/path/to/templates';

my $msg = MIME::Lite::TT::HTML->new(
From => 'x@abc.com',
To => 'y@abc.com',
Cc => 'z@abc.com',
Subject => 'Your recent purchase',
Template => {
#text => 'text.txt',
html => 'test.html',
},
TmplOptions => \%options,
TmplParams => \%params,
);

$msg->attr("content-type" => "multipart/mixed");

my $header_path = '/images/header.jpg';

my $footer_path = '/images/footer.jpg';

$msg->attach( Type => 'image/jpeg',
Path => $header_path,
Filename => 'header.jpg',
Disposition => 'attachment'
);

$msg->attach( Type => 'image/jpeg',
Path => $footer_path,
Filename => 'footer.jpg',
Disposition => 'attachment'
);

# send the email
MIME::Lite->send('smtp', 'smtp.ss.xyz.com', Timeout => 60);
$msg->send;
print "Ok!\n";

Sorry but i can't try it now. I hope this work.

Best Regards

hSindhu

ASKER

Hi Shiva,

Let me try this snippet and I will keep you posted if that worked.

Thanks!

hSindhu

ASKER

Hi Shiva,

I dont wish to give a http path for my image files. I want to give an absolute path like Ex: "/home/sin/test" in the code. I tried to test your code and I dont see the images in the email. I just got the images as an attachment in the email. Can you please paste a working code snippet so that I can test it?

Thanks!

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hSindhu

ASKER

Thanks for your help!