How do I send html email from Perl?

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Q. How Can I send html email from cgi perl program under UNIX / Linux and Apache web sever?


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A. Sending HTML email is an easy task with MIME::Lite CPAN module. It is a low-calorie MIME generator.

It can be use to send html emails, graphics file email attachments as a single-part or multi-part message. Here is simple perl script that sends html email.

Install Perl MIME::Lite

If you do not have MIME::Lite module, install using following command (login as a root user):

# cpan -i MIME::Lite

Perl script code

Script to send html email from perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use MIME::Lite;

# SendTo email id
my $email = 'user@somewhere.com';

# create a new MIME Lite based email
my $msg = MIME::Lite->new
(
Subject => "HTML email test",
From    => 'YOU@somewhere.com',
To      => $email,
Type    => 'text/html',
Data    => '<H1>Hello</H1><br>This is a test email.
Please visit our site <a href="http://cyberciti.biz/">online</a><hr>'
);

$msg->send();

Save the script and execute it. Here is an email (sample) send by above script:

Read man page of MIME::Lite for more information:

perldoc MIME::Lite

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Posted by: Vivek Gite

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7 comment

  3. Hi , I have a problem when I send a long string used Data=>$content, $content included \r\n , It can not sent all the content of $content . could you please tell me what the problem is ?

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  7. Hi,
    I’ve got this error message:
    SMTP Failed to connect to mail server: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.
    at C:/EclipseWorkspaces/csse120/Perl_testy/Tk_hello_world.pl line 29

    Here is code:

    use MIME::Lite;

$user = 'aocmct@gmail.com';
$pass = 'xxxxxxxxxx';
print "$user\n";
print "$pass\n";
MIME::Lite->send('smtp', 'smtp.gmail.com', 
	AuthUser=>$user, AuthPass=>$pass, Timeout=>10);
# AuthUser=>$user, AuthPass=>$pass);


my $MailFrom = 'aocmct@gmail.com';
my $to_list  = 'jan.vicher@yahoo.com';
my $cc_list  = 'ice809@seznam.cz';
my $subject  = "hello test";
my $message  = "This email was generated automatically.";

my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
    From     => $MailFrom,
    To       => $to_list,
    Cc       => $cc_list,
    Subject  => $subject,
    Type     => 'TEXT',
    Encoding => '7bit',
    Data     => $message,
);
print "I\'m sending message\.\.\.\n";
print $msg;
$msg->send();

    Could you help me please?

    Jan

    Reply

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