What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list?
Glenn Dawson
glenn at antimatter.net
Sat Aug 20 22:37:37 GMT 2005
At 03:01 PM 8/20/2005, Gary Kline wrote:
>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?
There's a variety of utilities in /usr/ports/mail. There's also
libraries for a variety of languages.
-Glenn
> gary
>
>
> >
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