Re: [tlug] Using /bin/mail to send HTML mail from the command line?

["Walter Hansen" <gandalf@example.com>]

> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:33:50 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull"
> <stephen@example.com> wrote:
>
>> Why do you want to do this?
>
> Unfortunately, what *should* be industry standard and what PHB's want
> often tend to differ. Dramatically.
>
> Several of the outfits we work for here would simply fire us if we
> refused to generate their newsletters in HTML, preferring to send out
> a plain text mail with a link to a web page instead. The latter is what
> I'd much rather do given:
>
> * bandwidth considerations
> * the fact that HTML mail with embedded images looks "spammy" to things
>   like SpamAssassin
> * the number of people whose mailers don't render HTML in the first
>   place
> * HTML is for web pages, not e-mail
>
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I should chime in and say that it's quite possible to send a correctly
formated html message using mime along with a text version. It will work
correctly in a text display and in a html display. The mime headings have
to be set properly though. If you read (RTFM) for mime it's actaually
pretty easy to set up and does not mess with anyone. You can even do
things like encode the Subject to use a character set like UTF-8. I
investigated it for my company when we wanted to put out mail to our
customers and I didn't want to send html only versions.