RE: sending HTML formatted email using SENDMAIL

Eko Budiharto Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:04:47 -0700

Hi,

I am trying to send a HTML formatted email through sendmail but all HTML tags appears in the email. I also tried using the MIME even does not work(result dead.letter). Please tell me what is wrong with it.

the result (using MS OUTLOOK 2003):

Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

<html>

<body>

<center>Report</center>

</body>

</html>

the script:

open MAIL, "|$sendmail" or die "Cannot pipe $sendmail: $!";
print MAIL "To: $customer\n";
print MAIL "From: $CSRNameRetrieved<$CSREmailAddressRetrieved>\n";

#print MAIL "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
 #print MAIL "Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii\n";
#print MAIL "From: $CSRNameRetrieved<$CSREmailAddressRetrieved>\n";
 print MAIL "Subject: You paid ticket #. $ticketID\n";
 print MAIL "Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii\n";
 print MAIL "\n";
 print MAIL "<html>\n";
 print MAIL "<body>\n";
 print MAIL "<center>Report</center>\n";
 print MAIL "</body>\n";
 print MAIL "</html>\n";
 print MAIL "\n";
 close MAIL;

Bowie Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Eko Budiharto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: sending HTML formatted email using SENDMAIL

Hi,

I am trying to send a HTML formatted using SENDMAIL, but I always getting an error message, "saved message /.../dead.letter" Can someone explain to me why I am getting this error message?

open SENDMAIL, "|$sendmail" or die "Cannot pipe $sendmail: $!";
 print SENDMAIL "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
 print SENDMAIL "Content-Type: text/html\n";
 print SENDMAIL "To: ", $recipientCustomer, "\n";
 print SENDMAIL "From: ", $CSRnumber, "<", $CSRnumber, "> \n";
 print SENDMAIL "Subject: Your ticket will be sent. "\n";
print SENDMAIL "\n";

 print SENDMAIL "<center>Report</center>";
 close SENDMAIL;

What does the $sendmail variable represent? There may be some issues in the way you are calling it.

As for the email:

1) You should add <html> and <body> tags so that you have proper html in the message. This will make sure it gets displayed properly and also keep anti-spam programs from flagging it.

2) Add a newline at the end. Sendmail may do this for you, but it's always a good idea to make sure it's there.

So it should look like this:

print SENDMAIL "<html><body><center>Report</center></body></html>";

Bowie

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