Subject: Re: VMS Mail sends HTML messages!
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:17:15 -0500
From: "John Vottero" <John@mvpsi.com>
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms

Don't get too excited, this breaks in V7.3.

"Bob Ceculski" <bob@instantwhip.com> wrote in message
news:d7791aa1.0112271655.42c7dfea@posting.google.com...
> someone posted this awhile ago on this site ... I needed to send an html
> confirmation message to customers on our site and found a simple way to do
it!
> this was what was originally posted ...
>
> $ cr[0,8] = 13
>    $ lf[0,8] = 10
>    $ subject = "This is a test." + cr + lf -
>    _$ + "Mime-Version: 1.0" + cr + lf -
>    _$ + "Content-Type: text/enriched"
>    $ write sys$output subject
>    This is a test.
>    Mime-Version: 1.0
>    Content-Type: text/enriched
>    $ mail/subject="''subject'" tt: "SMTP%""anybody@xyzcompany.com"""
>    Enter your message below. Press CTRL/Z when complete, or CTRL/C to
>    quit:
>    <bold>Sometimes</bold>
>    <x-color><param>red</param>I</x-color>
>    even amaze <italic>myself</italic>!
>    ctrl-Z <-- i.e., here I typed a ctrl-z
>    $
>
>
> just do this, changing "enriched" to "html" ...
> if you create in any language a variable and define it as the following
...
>
> SUB = 'Web Order<CR><LF>Mime-Version: 1.0<CR><LF>Content-Type: text/html'
>
> and use this variable as the subject content in the mail command, then you
can
> send an html based file as a the message and it works great!  The above
> <CR><LF> were created w/EDT GOLD KEY, then type decimal 13 or 10, then EDT
> GOLD 3 (specins) ... it's that easy!