WHAT IS THIS ?
This is MIME::Lite::HTML, a module which provide routine
to transform a HTML page in a MIME::Lite mail
HOW DO I INSTALL IT ?
To install this module, cd to the directory that contains
this README file and type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
If you can't do that, you can put HTML.pm file in
directory $root/MIME/Lite/HTML.pm and then put use lib
$root in your program (make same thing if you haven't MIME-Lite
module).
So it give:
$root/MIME/Lite/HTML.pm
$root/MIME/Lite.pm
and in your script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use lib '/home/alian/mylibperl';
use MIME::Lite;
use MIME::Lite::HTML;
REQUIREMENT ?
libnet, MIME::Lite
DOCUMENTATION ?
You'll find documentation in the file HTML.pm in POD format
See too the eg directory
When you install MIME::Lite::HTML, the MakeMaker program
will automatically install the manual pages for you
(on Unix systems, type "man MIME::Lite::HTML").
Here an extract of POD documentation:
NAME
MIME::Lite::HTML - Provide routine to transform a HTML page in a
MIME-Lite mail
SYNOPSIS
use MIME::Lite::HTML;
my $mailHTML = new MIME::Lite::HTML
From => '
[email protected]',
To => 'alian@saturne',
Subject => 'Mail in HTML with images';
$MIMEmail = $mailHTML->parse('
http://www.alianwebserver.com');
$MIMEmail->send; # or for win user : $mail->send_by_smtp('smtp.fai.com');
DESCRIPTION
This module is a Perl mail client interface for sending message that
support HTML format and build them for you.. This module provide routine
to transform a HTML page in MIME::Lite mail. So you need this module to
use MIME-Lite-HTML possibilities
What's happen ?
The job done is:
* Get the file (LWP) if needed
* Parse page to find include images
* Attach them to mail with adequat header if asked (default)
* Include external CSS,Javascript file
* Replace relative url with absolute one
* Build the final MIME-Lite object with each part found
Usage
Did you alread see link like "Send this page to a friend" ?. With this
module, you can do script that to this in 3 lines.
It can be used too in a HTML newsletter. You make a classic HTML page,
and give just url to MIME::Lite::HTML.
Construction
MIME-Lite-HTML use a MIME-Lite object, and RFC2257 construction:
If images and text are present, construction use is:
--> multipart/alternative
------> text/plain
------> multipart/related
-------------> text/html
-------------> each images
If no images but text is present, this is that:
---> multipart/alternative
-------> text/plain if present
-------> text/html
If images but no text, this is:
---> multipart/related
-------> text/html
-------> each images
If no images and no text, this is:
---> text/html
Documentation
Additionnal documentation can be found here:
* MIME-lite module
* RFC 822, RFC 1521, RFC 1522 and specially RFC 2257 (MIME
Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML)
Clients tested
HTML in mail is not full supported so this module can't work with all
email clients. If some client recognize HTML, they didn't support images
include in HTML. So in fact, they recognize multipart/relative but not
multipart/related.
Netscape Messager (Linux-Windows)
100% ok
Outlook Express (Windows)
100% ok
Eudora (Windows)
If this module just send HTML and text, (without images), 100% ok.
With images, Eudora didn't recognize multipart/related part as
describe in RFC 2257 even if he can read his own HTML mail. So if
images are present in HTML part, text and HTML part will be
displayed both, text part in first. Two additional headers will be
displayed in HTML part too in this case. Version 1.0 of this module
correct major problem of headers displayed with image include in
HTML part.
KMail (Linux)
If this module just send HTML and text, (without images), 100% ok.
In other case, Kmail didn't support image include in HTML. So if you
set in KMail "Prefer HTML to text", it display HTML with images
broken. Otherwise, it display text part.
Pegasus (Windows)
If this module just send HTML and text, (without images), 100% ok.
Pegasus didn't support images in HTML. When it find a
multipart/related message, it ignore it, and display text part.
If you find others mail client who support (or not support)
MIME-Lite-HTML module, give me some feedback ! If you want be sure that
your mail can be read by maximum of people, (so not only OE and
Netscape), don't include images in your mail, and use a text buffer too.
If multipart/related mail is not recognize, multipart/alternative can be
read by the most of mail client.
Have fun, and let me know how it turns out!
Alain BARBET
[email protected]
