A question for jj (or anyone) re: Xmail and send raw mail

Rectal_Exam-bot · September 29, 2007, 7:20am

In a previous post from 2006 this is what you wrote to someone who wanted to send an html formatted email via nix:

This is the raw source for a valid HTML message (I use a “multipart/related” message, which works on most email clients):

Date: 25 May 06 10:37:45 +0200
To: rec@pient.com
From: send@er.net
Subject: Test
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="d-201868665"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
If you see this message, then you aren't using a
MIME compliant mail reader.

--d-201868665
Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="d-201868725"

--d-201868725
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

insert plain text here for non-html mail clients

--d-201868725
Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<html><body><font color="red" size="5">blah...</font><br>
<br>
<font color="orange">Orange juice...

--d-201868725--

--d-201868665--

I never tried *nix “mail”, but I can ensure this works fine with XMail.osax’s “send raw mail” command, and a similar approach will do the trick in Entourage.

I know how to send mail using xmail but the plain text look of it just leaves me cold. I am trying to understand what your post is saying and am just not getting it. I have noticed that the send raw mail does not have a subject option so am unsure how I would set one but if I understand what you are saying above then I should format the body copy thus:

set lBodyCopy to ("Date:" & (current date) & "+0500" & return & ¬
	"To:" & lToAddress & return & ¬
	"From:mymail@server.com" & return & ¬
	"Subject:" & lSubject & return & ¬
	"Mime-Version: 1.0"...

including all of my html code and ending with

..."--d-201868725--"&return&¬
"--d-201868665--")as string

Is that correct?!? Is it even in the ballpark? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Rectal_Exam-bot · October 1, 2007, 9:02pm

Okay, maybe I shouldn’t have addressed this to jj even though I was asking for clarifications on one of his previous posts, but seriously, if ANYONE can help with this please feel free.

All I want to be able to do is send a raw email message through the XMail osax with a Subject line. Right now it looks like I can either send a subject-less raw email or a plain text email with a subject. It seems like it should be straight forward but I can’t figure out how to add the subject line.

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Adam_Bell · October 1, 2007, 9:09pm

Though I haven’t done it, I think that’s what the “extra headers” property is for. Have you tried playing with them?

Rectal_Exam-bot · October 1, 2007, 9:14pm

Not having a clue what ‘extra headers’ referred to I had not, but will do so immediately. Is there an easier way to accomplish this through mail.app or entourage? I figured that XMail was the way to go based on no actual evidence but is there is an easier way to accomplish this I will take the time to write the new handler(s).

OOps, I was wrong. Extra headers only shows up under send mail not send raw mail -

send raw mail‚v : send a raw mail, you’ll have to provide every recipients, because the raw source won’t be parsed to find them!
send raw mail
to list of string : the recipients of the mail
from string : the author of the mail
raw source string : the body of the mail
SMTP server string : the smtp server to send the mail (smtp.foobar.com), deault is ‘localhost’
[username string] : your login if the server require an authentication
[password string] : your password if the server require an authentication
[authentication plain/login/pop3/crammd5/cramsha1/anonymous/auto] : the type of authentication mechanism to use
[ssl boolean] : wether you want to use SSL encryption
[ssl verification verify none/verify peer] : what kind of SSL verification to do with your certificates
[pem certificate file] : where is your PEM certificate, should be left blank if using ‘verify none’
[pem certificate directory file] : where is your directory containing PEM certificate, should be left blank if using ‘verify none’
[timeout integer] : abort after how many seconds ? (default is 60 seconds)
[port integer] : the port on which runs the SMTP server (25 is the default)
[cc list of string] : the list of cc recipients of the mail {cc1,cc2,.}
[bcc list of string] : the list of bcc recipients of the mail {bcc1,bcc2,.}

Guess I can’t test it.