Re: mail and html

"Terry Orgill" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma
Organization Strictly Business Systems
Message-ID <010601c2df5e$bbc27b40$2101a8c0@Stribus>
I don't give grief.  I just want us to all get along.
----- Original Message -----
From: Stewart M. Ives <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:10 AM
Subject: RE: mail and html


> I think what you want to do is compose the _complete_ message, header
> included, and then send it via sendmail.
>
> I don't have the full format of the header but you can pull it off of any
> email and mimic it and then send it directly via sendmail.
>
> And by gosh don't give me any grief about topposting.
>
> stew
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Terry Orgill
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:59 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: mail and html
>
>
> I am using html to format documents, like invoices.  I can add graphics,
> change fonts and colors and all sorts of nifty stuff.  I want to use mail
> or
> pine or something to send these html files so they will pull up in the
mail
> client formatted.  If you simply do a 'mail [email protected] <
> invoice.html'
> joe will see a bunch of <html><body></body></html>.  What is needed is a
> simple 'Content-type: TEXT/HTML' in the mail header.  For the life of me,
I
> can't find a command line option or configuration file option to make mail
> or pine insert this line.  If I add the line to my html, it is ignored
> because there is a space between the authentic header information and my
> addition.  If I edit the mail on my linux mailserver, delete the space and
> then pop the mail into Outlook, it pulls up fine.  I tried another Linux
> mailing list and all I got was lectures about how you shouldn't mail html
> and html was a bad way to do it, etc.  I am not a spammer and have
> legitimate reasons for wanting to do it this way.  Help!
>
>
>
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