Re: Sending HTML e-mail

[John Smith <yoursurrogategod@gmail.com>]

> It's not that easy to do. The easiest way is to use a library constructed 
> for that purpose. I use one that originated with Tom Moran built on top of 
> Claw Sockets or NC Sockets. (And I've more recently redesigned it to work 
> better in my spam filter and it's related tools.)
> 
> But of course to use Claw.Sockets you have to have the paid version of Claw. 
> The original version of NC Sockets only works on Windows; I once started a 
> more generic version but never quite finished it (maybe this year).
> 
> And I note that the NC_SMTP that I have doesn't have the ability to set the 
> content type (and even if it did, sending just an HTML message is evil --  
> you have to send a text equivalent along with it. Indeed, many spam filters 
> substantially increase the spam score for messages where the text and HTML 
> have different contents -- it's important to get that right). I've never 
> needed that; the primary use I've had for this library is to send bounce 
> messages for undeliverable mail -- and that is always a plain text function 
> that does not copy much of the original message (if you include the original 
> message, spammers will bounce spam off of your mail server in order to use 
> it to originate the spam).
> 
> One can trivially send a text message in NC_SMTP using the simple send 
> function:
> 
>      NC_SMTP.Open (Session => My_Session,
>                                    IP => Target_Ip);
>      NC_SMTP.Send_Simple_Message (Session => My_Session,
>                                                               Sender => 
> "r...@rrsoftware.com",
>                                                               Recipient => 
> ad.....@ada-auth.org,
>                                                               Subject => 
> "Ada is great",
>                                                               The_Body => 
> ...);
>      NC_SMTP.Close (Session => My_Session);
> 
> Here, the body is a linked list of Unbounded_Strings, each string 
> representing a line (I won't show the construction of those - it should be 
> obvious). And Target_IP can be figured out by using the Lookup_Host_Info 
> function (this is the interface to DNS in Claw.Sockets and NC.Sockets).
> 
> There's probably some public library out there that does this stuff, but I 
> don't know anything about it.
> 
>                                      Randy.

So, basically, you're saying that this is impossible with the default AWS libraries?