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     => 'MIME-Lite@alianwebserver.com',
         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:

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:

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
alian@alianwebserver.com