Email via IMAP with HTML body from a template

Thu Aug 11 02:23:44 EDT 2022

Sorry, the last line of the replacement code should have been:

put mimeEncodeAsMIMEMultipartDocument(tContent, “alernative”) into tBody

(It was missing the "into tBody" at the end of the line)

> On 11 Aug 2022, at 4:17 pm, Charles Warwick <charles at techstrategies.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Sean,
> 
> After reading your second e-mail, I see that you don't want to use mimeEncodeFieldAsMIMEMultipartDocument to generate the HTML version of the e-mail body from a field as it does in that sample stack.
> 
> If you want to create your own HTML and plain text versions of the e-mail body, you can still use that sample stack.  Simply replace the following line:
> 
> put mimeEncodeFieldAsMIMEMultipartDocument(the long id of field "email_message") into tBody
> 
> With something like this:
> 
> put “Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8” & crlf into tHeadersPlain
> put “Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable” after tHeadersPlain
> put “<Plain Text Version Here>” into tBodyPlain
> put tHeadersPlain & crlf & crlf & \
> mimeEncodeForMIMETransfer(tBodyPlain, “quoted-printable”) into tContent[1]
> 
> put “Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8” & crlf into tHeadersHTML
> put “Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable” after tHeadersHTML
> put “<HTML Version Here>” into tBodyHTML
> put tHeadersHTML & crlf & crlf & \
> mimeEncodeForMIMETransfer(tBodyHTML, “quoted-printable”) into tContent[2]
> 
> put mimeEncodeAsMIMEMultipartDocument(tContent, “alernative”)
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Charles
> 
>> On 11 Aug 2022, at 3:46 pm, Charles Warwick <charles at techstrategies.com.au> wrote:
>> Hi Sean,
>> There is a sample stack on my website for sending an e-mail with an attachment using the MIME library here:
>> https://downloads.techstrategies.com.au/tsnet/smtpexample.livecode
>> Does that help at all,
>> Regards,
>> Charles
>>>> On 11 Aug 2022, at 2:39 pm, Tom Glod via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> Sean,
>>> Try this ..
>>> edit the script of stack "com.livecode.library.mime"
>>> there seems to be some documentation there that may help.
>>> I also found this
>>> https://livecode.fandom.com/wiki/MimeEncodeAsMIMEMultipartDocument
>>> Is that your comment? :)
>>> Hope that helps a bit.
>>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 11:46 PM Sean Cole via use-livecode <
>>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I'm struggling with this still. It's been years (since before Dec 2020) and
>>>> I just can't get my head around it.
>>>> I have a template created in Dreamweaver that is a simple bit of HTML body
>>>> with CSS styling embedded (https://pidigital.co.uk/DeepDiveReport.html).
>>>> There is also a pdf that needs to be attached.
>>>> How do I use MimeEncodeAsMIMEMultipartDocument to make it ready to send via
>>>> tsNetSmtpSync?
>>>> There are zero tutorials and the dictionary is devoid of any useful
>>>> information on how to use it. Google turned up nothing. In my previous
>>>> request back in 2020, Monte, the author of the MIME library, had only
>>>> referred me on to the RSC docs for MIME which is like looking for a straw
>>>> in a needle stack. When I asked at one of the 'Firesides' I was told just
>>>> to use a template and send it. But to send it, it needs to be encoded and
>>>> that's the bit that is undocumented anywhere.
>>>> Any help appreciated.
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