how to send HTML email?

alan123 · Nov 4, 2002

I am using "sendmail" to send plain text email by:
open(MAIL,"|$mailprog -t&quot

;
print MAIL "To: $recipient\n";
print MAIL "From: $mail_from\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n";
print MAIL "$message\n\n";
close(MAIL);

Now if I want to send rich-text format(with HTML tags), include images, how can I change the codes and implement this?

craigmcl · Nov 5, 2002

You don't need to change the code above, just change the contents of $message to include your HTML. If the mail reader supports HTML email, it'll work... if not, it will still work (from your end), but will display the raw HTML to the user.

For example:

$message = "<HTML><BODY><P ALIGN=CENTER>Hello!</P></BODY></HTML>"

... of course you could (and should) build it a little more thoroughly than that.

Cheers,
--Craig

iggit · Nov 5, 2002

Add these to the mail script

print MAIL "MIME-version: 1.0\n";
print MAIL "Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii\n";
print MAIL "Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit\n";
print MAIL "X-Mailer: [insert your name]\n";
print MAIL "X-Priority: 1\n"; #1,2 or 3
print MAIL "X-MSMail-priority: Urgent\n"; # or normal or low

HTML then will display properly

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how to send HTML email?

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