There's anyone that can help me to send a html e-mail with a gif using
sendmail running on Unix?
I encode the gif with the uuencode utility but I don't want it to be
received like an attachment, I'd like to have the gif in the mail body.
Any suggestion?
Simone (Florence - Italy)

You need to use mutt, or something similar, to send the HTML as the body.
Or, learn how MIME envelopes work and send the raw e-mail. It's not that
hard to learn.

Glen

"sigio" <sigio (AT) cafedelraga (DOT) com> wrote

"sigio" wrote:
Simone, benvenuto cordiale!

The way you embed images depends on the tools you use to build the
mail body. There are many tools and many documents on the net to
describe the format of mail headers. Basically you need to specify a
Content-ID, Content-Disposition:inline, Content-Type:image/gif" (and
other headers), then in the body of your mail, you need:
<img src="CID:12312323">
The CID must match the Content-ID. Adding in more images means adding
more content tags and img tags, possibly using a higher-level mail
header of Content-Type:multipart/alternative or multipart/mixed, and
some other details.

Spero quello t'aiutato.
(Discutiamo base di dati qui, non email - lo sa? Ha una sistema di
Pick?)

Saluti a bella Firenze!
Tony
TG@ rimuovaNebula-RnD.com

This type of questions ("How do I email html/attachment/whatever?")
seems to come up about once a month. My standard response is "try
postie" (a command line mailer from ingfradig.com). There is a free
non-commercial version, the commercial version is only $75 US. I use it
at all my sites; it can handle both pop and imap, and can not only send
emails but also read an inbox, move/copy/delete messages, etc.

I am curious: does anyone else use this great tool? or am I the only one
that is happy to pay a tiny amount for something that already works. Is
it a productive use of time to figure out the internals of email
messages and master the use of the multiple utilities necessary to
encode/assemble/send/roll-your-own? It seems to me that the time spent
googling for the answer(s) alone makes the DIY approach more expensive
than postie.

/Scott Ballinger
Pareto Corporation
Edmonds WA USA
206 713 6006

Tony Gravagno wrote:

"Scott Ballinger" <scott (AT) paretoTIRED-OF-SPAM (DOT) net> wrote

Change that to infradig dot com

Thanks to everybody. I've resolved all my problems.
you,ve been very very kind.
ciao a tutti e grazie !!!

Tony, you charmer!

Henry


Tony Gravagno wrote:

It seems postie does more than the freeware people usually mention,
and (trusting Scott) is probably worth the cost. Many people want to
use blat, mutt, sendmail, etc, which, among other issues, aren't
cross-platform and of course need to be integrated with MV by an MV
developer.

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Tony


Scott Ballinger wrote:

esker software has a good tool vsi fax. unix install allows you to
'spool' from pick to email. It has full document conversions
including, html, tif, pdf, etc. a hardcore unix guy might not be
impressed. but I was running MV Enterprise on AIX, vary new to (AIX
and unix about a month) And had emails being sent from from Pick Print
jobs in half a day. A bit pricing for a small shop, but for a 100 plus
license enterprise it was like 1500. Course we went a diffrerent
direction because "C" level exec talked to a copier salesman.

But, Esker will be at Spectrum next Month in Long Beach, so you could
check with them.

MikeMc