Sending email in HTML format directly from filePro

Thu Dec 8 13:46:06 PST 2011

Larry,

It took considerable testing for me to get it right when I first started 
using this.....and I've used it for a number of year now.  So, I'm glad it 
helped.

Regards,
Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Hoover" <larry at hoovercs.com>
To: "Bob" <roberth at sim-soft.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: Sending email in HTML format directly from filePro

> 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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