Subject: Re: VMS Mail sends HTML messages!
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:17:15 -0500
From: "John Vottero"
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Don't get too excited, this breaks in V7.3.
"Bob Ceculski" 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:
> Sometimes
> redI
> even amaze myself!
> 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 OrderMime-Version: 1.0Content-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
> were created w/EDT GOLD KEY, then type decimal 13 or 10, then EDT
> GOLD 3 (specins) ... it's that easy!