how to send html formatted mail from SMTP to Outlook?

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nickelstat

I am trying to send this simple test html, trying to make it appear in
outlook as html
from Unix via smtp (actually using Perl's Net::SMTP package)

Content-Type: text/html

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<style type="text/css">
#black {
background-color: black;
color: yellow;
font-style:bold;
}

</style>
</head>
<BODY lang=EN-US vLink=purple link=blue>
<table border><tr>
<th>col1
<th>col2
</tr><tr>
<td>data1
<td>data2
</tr><tr>
<td>data11
<td>data22
</tr></table>
</body> </html>

But it keeps coming up as text (the html program itself is displayed)

One person suggested I added "Content-Type: text/html" as in CGI, but
that did not work neither since I added it in the BODY.

What does outlook expect in order to recognize the message as HTML, and
how do I send it via SMTP? (which part of the header? is there an RFC I
can read? I've scanned some RFC's but could not find the right one)

Thanks in advance
 
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nickelstat

I found RFC 2045 that talks about Content-Type in header fields, but
gave no example on WHICH HEADER field, and where it fits in the smtp
sequence.

Any example would be very much appreciated.
 
N

nickelstat

Found RFC 2076 which defines a whole bunch of headers, and what they
are.

That meant I put the Content-Type header in the wrong place (inside the
body)

got it to work now.
 

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