Forum OpenACS Q&A: ns_sendmail

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1: ns_sendmail
Posted by j c on 11/15/02 07:21 PM
How would you send a html email format
using AOLSERVER ns_sendmail?

can anyone help?

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2: Re: ns_sendmail (response to 1)
Posted by Jonathan Ellis on 11/15/02 07:36 PM
I'd start with trying the obvious...
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3: Re: ns_sendmail (response to 1)
Posted by Tom Jackson on 11/15/02 07:55 PM

You can add extra headers to you email message: 

set subject "Test message"
set body "
This is a test message using HTML
"
set from "me@example.com"
set to "you@example.com"
set extraheaders [ns_set create]
ns_set put $extraheaders "Content-type" "text/html"

ns_sendmail $to $from $subject $body $extraheaders
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4: Re: ns_sendmail (response to 2)
Posted by j c on 11/15/02 07:56 PM
What would be the obvious?

I tried using ns_sendmail but can only
send plain text email. How would you send
an html formatted email?

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5: Re: ns_sendmail (response to 3)
Posted by j c on 11/15/02 07:59 PM
Thank's for your response!

could you explain "ns_set put" command

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6: Re: ns_sendmail (response to 1)
Posted by Tom Jackson on 11/15/02 08:11 PM

An ns_set is a data structure used for a lot of things in AOLserver. It is a key/value structure that allows multiple entries per key, so you can use it for html headers and database rows, and in this case email headers.

ns_set put is used to add a new key/value pair to the set.

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7: Re: ns_sendmail (response to 6)
Posted by j c on 11/15/02 08:19 PM
Thanks again!!

set extraheaders [ns_set create]
ns_set put $extraheaders "Content-type" "text/html"

worked.

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8: Re: ns_sendmail (response to 1)
Posted by Paul Doerwald on 11/18/02 05:37 PM
I should add a little note that using this method is a sure way to get your email caught by SpamAssassin.  The default SpamAssassin configuration flags HTML-only emails with almost all the points needed to trigger the "spam" level.

In my experience I stay away from HTML-formatted emails using ns_sendmail for this reason.

I haven't studied the code at all, but as far as I understand, acs-mail or acs-mail-lite should be able to handle properly formatted mime-encoded email messages.

Paul.