Perl Email Question

[amerar]

Hi All,

I'm looking at emails that have more than one part. I currently have a
script that reads a file and sends out the emails. The email is always
done with HTML, but several of our clients cannot view HTML.

What are the headers that I can code such that if the email client can
understand HTML it displays it, otherwise it just displays the text
portion??

Thanks,

Arthur

 

[Philip Paeps]

I'm looking at emails that have more than one part. I currently have a
script that reads a file and sends out the emails. The email is always done
with HTML, but several of our clients cannot view HTML.

This is not really a Perl question. In general, it's not a good idea to send
HTML email unless the recipients have explicitely asked for it. It's a lot of
overhead and an unnecessary waste of resources, otherwise.

What are the headers that I can code such that if the email client can
understand HTML it displays it, otherwise it just displays the text
portion??

You'll want to look at the MIME standard. You need to use a multipart
Content-Type and you'll have to order the parts such that the HTML version is
the last part. Further questions should probably be asked in comp.mail.* or
similar places, not in comp.lang.perl.misc.

- Philip

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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

You'll want to look at the MIME standard. You need to use a multipart
Content-Type and you'll have to order the parts such that the HTML version is
the last part. Further questions should probably be asked in comp.mail.* or
similar places, not in comp.lang.perl.misc.

Well, assuming that the OP wants to do it in Perl, it should be added
that quite a few Perl programmers, i.e. the authors of various modules
for sending email, have already looked at the MIME standard.

So a more straight-forward advice would be: Check out the docs of one of
the CPAN modules with the ability to send multipart messages. My
personal favorite is Mail::Sender, but there are others.