What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list?

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:40:38PM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote:
> At 01:08 PM 8/20/2005, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> >        People,
> >
> >        Can any one on-list clue me in on what kind of file(s)
> >        to create that will let me mail one file a day (or week)
> >        in both ASCII and HTML to people who subscribe to my
> >        list from my website.
> >
> >        I can certainly cobble together the cgi/perl or php
> >        code that gets a person's email; I might as well use
> >        majordomo or mailman, for the list management.  But
> >        what then?
> >
> >        Specifically, I want to mail out a brief, neatly formatted
> >        file that might be (in html).  E.g:
> >
> >        <CENTER> Existence precedes essense
> >        <P ALIGN="right"> -- J-P. Sartre
> >        </CENTER>
> >
> >        I would like to include a small graphic at the bottom of
> >        my html file.  Maybe this is overkill.  At any rate, the
> >        file would have to be readable by non-GUI mail programs
> >        as well.  (Like mutt/elm/Mail).
> >
> >        I created test files and read them with evolution and
> >        mutt.  nO luck.  The tests were fully html-complient,
> >        but showed up in raw/source mode...  so it's time to
> >        ask the experts.
> >
> >        [[ I did google around but didn't find anything that
> >           looked like what I want.  So any help will be greatly
> >           appreciated!
> >        ]]
> >
> >        thanks for help or pointers to help, &c.,
> 
> You could MIME encode it.  Make the first part text/plain and the 
> second part text/html.
> 

	Are there any mime-encoding utilities? or is this something
	you just learn how to do?  

	gary


> 

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