From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 20 22:01:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C2C16A41F for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:01:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B681843D48 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:01:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7KM1eYl032693; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:01:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j7KM1dvQ032692; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:01:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:01:39 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Glenn Dawson Message-ID: <20050820220139.GA32646@thought.org> References: <20050820200824.GA14448@thought.org> <6.2.3.4.2.20050820131927.04269920@cobalt.antimatter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050820131927.04269920@cobalt.antimatter.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:01:56 -0000 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: > > > >
Existence precedes essense > >

-- J-P. Sartre > >

> > > > 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? gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix