Re: Sending simple email
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 12:01:40PM -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: * Bill Moseley mose...@hank.org [2009-06-06T11:34:29] I see the recommendation to use Email::Sender, but are there docs available? You have sent this message at an excellent time! Email::Sender::Simple is potentially done, and I've written a quickstart guide, just last night. http://rjbs.manxome.org/tmp/QuickStart.html Looks pretty good. Thanks. Any plans to add simple attachments? Like I mentioned, one of the more common tasks for apps I work on seem to be attaching pdfs and spreadsheets. I tend to either send plain text or html formatted messages. If I send an html messages and I don't also have a plain text version I want to extract text and links from the html to make a plain text part. You might like the BBC's Email::MIME::CreateHTML: Email-MIME-CreateHTML I think it does everything you want. I looked at that and I don't think it will create the plain text version automatically from the html, but I'll take a look again. Thanks, -- Bill Moseley. mose...@hank.org Sent from my iMutt
Re: Sending simple email
* Bill Moseley mose...@hank.org [2009-06-07T19:07:34] On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 12:01:40PM -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: You have sent this message at an excellent time! Email::Sender::Simple is potentially done, and I've written a quickstart guide, just last night. http://rjbs.manxome.org/tmp/QuickStart.html Looks pretty good. Thanks. Any plans to add simple attachments? Like I mentioned, one of the more common tasks for apps I work on seem to be attaching pdfs and spreadsheets. Well, Email::Sender doesn't deal with attachments at all. It doesn't know what's in your message, beyond *maybe* looking at the to/from headers. Attachment stuff is all handled by Email::MIME. Can you give me an idea what the Perl you want to write would look like? You might like the BBC's Email::MIME::CreateHTML: Email-MIME-CreateHTML I think it does everything you want. I looked at that and I don't think it will create the plain text version automatically from the html, but I'll take a look again. You're right, oops. In these circumstances I do one of three things: a) shell out to w3m (ugh!) b) only write the plaintext part, in Markdown, and use that to generate both (see http://search.cpan.org/dist/Email-MIME-Kit-Assembler-Markdown) c) use HTML::FormatText::WithLinks -- rjbs
Re: Sending simple email
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 07:28:13PM -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
Well, Email::Sender doesn't deal with attachments at all. It doesn't know
what's in your message, beyond *maybe* looking at the to/from headers.
Attachment stuff is all handled by Email::MIME.
Can you give me an idea what the Perl you want to write would look like?
Well, Mail::Sender has something close. I haven't used that module
before but it looks like this:
$sender-MailFile({
to = $to,
cc = $cc,
subject = 'May 2009 Monthly Report',
msg = 'Attached is the report you requested.',
file= $spreadsheet_filename,
});
But, I don't think it does any MIME detection of the file.
That's a bit tricky -- MIME::Types or File::LibMagic could be used.
It's pretty simplistic, but probably a large percentage of email would
be handled by that. Everything (except subject) takes a scalar or an
array ref.
--
Bill Moseley.
mose...@hank.org
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