XMail doesn't work in Snow Leopard, does anyone know an alternative?

[ZildjianKX]

I’ve been using XMail for awhile to send out custom HTML emails. After upgrading to Snow Leopard, I realized that it no longer works. Does anyone know a good alternative to XMail (preferably free) that allows you to send out HTML emails (not using the Mail.app)?

Thanks.

[Craig_Williams]

I use this Ruby script to send html email. This works on Snow Leopard and has no external dependencies.
It is actually a very small script if you take out all the error message text.

hth,

Craig

Call it from AppleScript like this

set theMessage to "From: Private Person <me@fromdomain.com>
To: A Test User <test@todomain.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html
Subject: SMTP e-mail test

This is an e-mail message sent in HTML format

<h1>This is a headline</h1>
<strong>This text is in BOLD.</strong>"

set theRecipient to quoted form of "test@todomain.com"
set theSender to quoted form of "me@fromdomain.com"
set msg to quoted form of theMessage

set theRes to do shell script "/usr/bin/ruby ~/desktop/send_mail.rb " & theRecipient & space & theSender & space & msg

Ruby Script

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w

require ‘net/smtp’

HOST_ADDRESS = ‘smtp.comcast.net’ # your outgoing smtp server
PORT_NUMBER = 25
EMAIL_ACCOUNT = ‘user@comcast.net’ # user email account
PASSWORD = ‘some_hard_to_guess_pw’ # user password

if ARGV.size !=3
usage = <<ERROR_MSG
There were only #{ARGV.size} arguments and I require 3.

Usage:
/usr/bin/ruby #{FILE} ‘recipients@email.com’ ‘senders@email.com’ ‘email_message’

Example message:

From: Private Person <me@fromdomain.com>
To: A Test User <test@todomain.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html
Subject: SMTP e-mail test

This is an e-mail message sent in HTML format

<h1>This is a headline</h1>
<strong>This text is in BOLD.</strong>

ERROR_MSG

puts usage
exit
end

the_recipient = ARGV[0]
the_sender = ARGV[1]

message = <<MESSAGE_END
#{ARGV[2]}
MESSAGE_END

begin
Net::SMTP.start(HOST_ADDRESS, PORT_NUMBER, HOST_ADDRESS, EMAIL_ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, :login) do |smtp|
smtp.open_message_stream(“#{the_recipient}”, “#{the_sender}”) do |f|
f.puts message
end
end
rescue Exception => e
print “Exception occurred: #{e}”
end

[ZildjianKX]

This is a late reply, but thanks a ton for the help.

If anyone else is trying to use the above script and you copy and paste it from a webpage, make sure you remove the hidden characters that might get copied from the webpage with an editor, like BBEdit.

Also, this is probably a good reference for anyone else trying to tweak the script:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/smtp/rdoc/classes/Net/SMTP.html

Thanks again.