Sending email in HTML format directly from filePro

Thu Dec 8 08:28:48 PST 2011

Bob,

That works great for me, too.  Thanks!  Saved me lots of time and 
frustration!

Larry

On 12/04/11 10:59 PM, Bob wrote:
> The following is the template format that I use and it work everytime:
>
> Subject:"You subject goes here"
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>   boundary="_newsletterboundary_"
>
> This is a multipart MIME message.
>
> --_newsletterboundary_
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> This is
> the plain
> text area.
>
> --_newsletterboundary_
> Content-Type: text/html
>
> <html>
> <head>
> </head>
>
> <body>
>
> HTML Code goes here
>
> </body
>
> </html>
>
> --_newsletterboundary_--
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian K. White"<brian at aljex.com>
> To:<filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 1:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Sending email in HTML format directly from filePro
>
>
>> On 12/4/2011 1:05 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Bill Campbell"<bill at celestial.com>
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Dec 03, 2011, Larry Hoover wrote:
>>>>> I'm creating emails directly from filePro and sending them out via mutt
>>>>> in Linux. I am successful with plain text emails, but html format does
>>>>> not render in html. Has anyone done this? Can it be done? Is it a
>>>>> function of the mutt or sendmail?
>>>>
>>>> This sounds like you're not getting the proper mail headers and
>>>> MIME parts right.
>>>
>>> I don't believe that mutt knows *how* to original HTML emails.
>>>
>>> Larry needs to understand, if he doesn't already, that HTML email *must*
>>> be MIME multipart/alternative with a text/plain and a text/HTML part, and
>>> *should* have some useful content in the text/plain part to avoid pissing
>>> off recipients who cannot (or like me, choose not to) read HTML email.
>>>
>>> (There are good security reasons not to read HTML email...)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -- jra
>>
>> You can send a pure html email without any multipart mime just by
>> putting content-type: text/html in the regular mail headers.
>>
>> I don't know how to make mutt do it because I generate my emails
>> directly, including headers and feed them into sendmail, no mutt or
>> other mua.
>>
>> mutt is just a convenience to get attachements encoded into base64 and
>> generate a few lines of mime headers. You can do it yourself almost as
>> easily and get a lot more flexability, not to mention replacing an
>> external black box, mutt, with some filepro and/or shell code of your
>> own that will never change how it works except when you want it to, will
>> never not-work etc.
>>
>> Generate a text file test.eml that looks like this, not including the
>> "--------":
>>
>> --------
>> To: larry at hoovercs.com
>> From: larry at hoovercs.com
>> Subject: test message
>> Content-Type: text/html
>>
>> <html><body>
>> This is a<b>bold</b>  new test.
>> </body></html>
>> --------
>>
>> Now feed this file into "sentmail -ti" (it usually doesn't matter what
>> MTA you really have, smail, qmail, postfix, mmdf, or actual sendmail,
>> they all have a program or symlink called "sendmail" and all takes the
>> most common sendmail arguments.
>>
>> sendmail -ti<  test.eml
>>
>> That's it.
>> Just cut&paste the thing above and try it right in a shell session.
>>
>> The sweet trick for filepro is to take regular old print output and
>> print it to a file with nocodes, that stick it into a minimal file like
>> above with only the<pre></pre>  tag around the whole thing.
>>
>> --------
>> To: larry at hoovercs.com
>> From: larry at hoovercs.com
>> Subject: test message
>> Content-Type: text/html
>>
>> <html><body><pre>
>> (entire filepro form printed with nocodes)
>> </pre></body></html>
>> --------
>>
>> --
>> bkw
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