On 21 Jun 2001 11:17:46 -0400, Tony Pinto wrote:
> I have a report generated automatically from a DBMS which in turn gets emailed
> to a bunch of guys in the office. The resulting output file is pipe through
> the standard Mail command which does the job. This report is when received by
> the user in their Email client (Outlook) is shown in the body of the email.
> Some of the users complain that the columns are misaligned. I think this has
> to do with using Word as the default editor, which screws up the look of the
> report (plain text is fine!).
>
> Now the other workaround would be to send this output file a attachment which
> will keep the look of the report consistent .... any ideas on how to do
> this... may be another idea altogether will also be appriciated ?
>
I have found SpreadSheet::WriteExcel to be very useful when dealing with
Win32 users. You will also want to look at the MIME::* modules and
Mail::Sender or Mail::Sendmail. Reading the MIME RFC 2045
(http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/2045/rfc2045.html) can be very
useful.
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