[thelist] Well-formed HTML email

[Sam-I-Am]

>> Any ideas?  I'd love to see some documentation/books on making 
>> well-formed,
>> standards compliant emails -- you would think that the mail client 
>> would be
>> like a browser but nothing ceases to amaze me. :)
> 
> 
> Well, if you're willing to get your hands dirty using Perl, the 
> MIME::Lite module should give you control over everything. You can 
> author your HTML email in your editor of choice and then make Perl send 
> your email. (I'm assuming other languages might have modules that allow 
> similar amounts of control?)

I wrote a simple cgi to do my testing with. It lets you upload a file 
(your template - which will become the body of your message), specify 
To, Subject, etc. headers, and handles the sending of the mail. That way 
I can use the tools I normally do for the html part.
In putting it together I had to work around not having sendmail (I'm on 
win2k), but I ended up using the Mail::Sendmail module (I'll look again 
at MIME::Lite though.) I'd be happy to send out if it would help.

Sam