Email via IMAP with HTML body from a template

Thu Aug 11 11:38:36 EDT 2022

Thanks Charles

I think that’s going to work. I’m going to do some testing and let you know how I get on. 

Sean

> On 11 Aug 2022, at 07:23, Charles Warwick via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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