Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:37:56 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list? Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20050820153555.03063d30@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <20050820220139.GA32646@thought.org> References: <20050820200824.GA14448@thought.org> <6.2.3.4.2.20050820131927.04269920@cobalt.antimatter.net> <20050820220139.GA32646@thought.org>
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At 03:01 PM 8/20/2005, Gary Kline wrote: >On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:40:38PM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote: > > At 01:08 PM 8/20/2005, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > People, > > > > > > Can any one on-list clue me in on what kind of file(s) > > > to create that will let me mail one file a day (or week) > > > in both ASCII and HTML to people who subscribe to my > > > list from my website. > > > > > > I can certainly cobble together the cgi/perl or php > > > code that gets a person's email; I might as well use > > > majordomo or mailman, for the list management. But > > > what then? > > > > > > Specifically, I want to mail out a brief, neatly formatted > > > file that might be (in html). E.g: > > > > > > <CENTER> Existence precedes essense > > > <P ALIGN="right"> -- J-P. Sartre > > > </CENTER> > > > > > > I would like to include a small graphic at the bottom of > > > my html file. Maybe this is overkill. At any rate, the > > > file would have to be readable by non-GUI mail programs > > > as well. (Like mutt/elm/Mail). > > > > > > I created test files and read them with evolution and > > > mutt. nO luck. The tests were fully html-complient, > > > but showed up in raw/source mode... so it's time to > > > ask the experts. > > > > > > [[ I did google around but didn't find anything that > > > looked like what I want. So any help will be greatly > > > appreciated! > > > ]] > > > > > > thanks for help or pointers to help, &c., > > > > You could MIME encode it. Make the first part text/plain and the > > second part text/html. > > > > Are there any mime-encoding utilities? or is this something > you just learn how to do? There's a variety of utilities in /usr/ports/mail. There's also libraries for a variety of languages. -Glenn > gary > > > > > >-- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix --- "was it the same cat?"
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