From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-07-18T10:43:12+09:00
Subject: Request: Lib to  create HTML E-mail?

I'm looking for code to create HTML E-mail.  I'd rather not re-invent 
anything if possible, though my search for such a beast has turned up 
nothing that does quite what I want.  About the closest is SimpleMail, 
but it does not handle inline images, which is critical.

(I've also started looking at RubyMail, though I haven't seen any 
indication that it supports inline image references.)

What I would *really* like is something that takes as input an HTML 
string and a hash of header values (to, from, subject, etc.), and 
creates the multipart/alternative E-mail by magic.

Ideally, it would create a plain text version, followed by the HTML 
version.  If the HTML contains any relative URLs, they would be 
interpreted as local file paths; the file would be slurped in, 
uuencoded, and added to the E-mail as a multipart/related segment, and 
the img href value then converted to a cid: reference.

I've done some hacking about on my own, munging up a copy of SimpleMail, 
but before I go too far I thought I'd just check to see if someone beat 
me to it.

Any tips or pointers appreciated; please, no lectures on the evils of 
HTML E-mail; this is for a specific project for people who actually 
*request* such E-mail.

Thanks!


James