How can I get a colored subject in my Perl created e-mails.

My script is sending e-mails to certain parties. It runs fine. Now I
want to have the recipients of my Perl created e-mail to see a colored
(say: red) subject. How can I direct my mail header to do this or
should I use a trick? All our customers use Outlook.

I'm using this format to crfeate the e-mail:

from => 'me@domain.com',
to => 'you@yourdomain.com',
subject => "this is the subject",
encoding => "7bit",
multipart => 'related

All help is appreciated.

Re: How can I get a colored subject in my Perl created e-mails.

ab wrote:
> My script is sending e-mails to certain parties. It runs fine. Now I
> want to have the recipients of my Perl created e-mail to see a colored
> (say: red) subject. How can I direct my mail header to do this or
> should I use a trick? All our customers use Outlook.

This is not really a question about Perl. It /could/ be a question about
a Perl module, but your not specifying which (if any) module you are
using. If so, you should check the documentation, but I'd be very
surprised to find the functionality you are looking for in a
Perl-module, since coloured subject lines are not a feature of the
e-mail standard (see RFC 2822, link below). The fact that your customers
are using Outlook is irrelevant to Perl.


RFC 2822:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt


-- Alex
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domain = iki dot fi
email = localpart at domain

Re: How can I get a colored subject in my Perl created e-mails.

On Sep 11, 11:11 am, ab wrote:
> My script is sending e-mails to certain parties. It runs fine. Now I
> want to have the recipients of my Perl created e-mail to see a colored
> (say: red) subject. How can I direct my mail header to do this or
> should I use a trick? All our customers use Outlook.
>
> I'm using this format to crfeate the e-mail:
>
> from => '...@domain.com',
> to => '...@yourdomain.com',
> subject => "this is the subject",
> encoding => "7bit",
> multipart => 'related
>
> All help is appreciated.

Is that even supported by Outlook?

Spiros

Re: How can I get a colored subject in my Perl created e-mails.

ab wrote:
> My script is sending e-mails to certain parties. It runs fine. Now I
> want to have the recipients of my Perl created e-mail to see a colored
> (say: red) subject. How can I direct my mail header to do this or
> should I use a trick? All our customers use Outlook.
>
> I'm using this format to crfeate the e-mail:
>
> from => 'me@domain.com',
> to => 'you@yourdomain.com',
> subject => "this is the subject",
> encoding => "7bit",
> multipart => 'related
>
> All help is appreciated.
>
You may (I'm guessing here) want to try setting a header that is
understood by Outlook to indicate priority, maybe X-Priority or
X-MSMail-Priority. You don't say which module you're using to send mail
so I can't help you with exactly how you'd accomplish that.

Mark

Re: How can I get a colored subject in my Perl created e-mails.

Thanks for now. Get back to you.

Ab



On Sep 11, 8:12 pm, Mark Clements
wrote:
> ab wrote:
> > My script is sending e-mails to certain parties. It runs fine. Now I
> > want to have the recipients of my Perl created e-mail to see a colored
> > (say: red) subject. How can I direct my mail header to do this or
> > should I use a trick? All our customers use Outlook.
>
> > I'm using this format to crfeate the e-mail:
>
> > from => '...@domain.com',
> > to => '...@yourdomain.com',
> > subject => "this is the subject",
> > encoding => "7bit",
> > multipart => 'related
>
> > All help is appreciated.
>
> You may (I'm guessing here) want to try setting a header that is
> understood by Outlook to indicate priority, maybe X-Priority or
> X-MSMail-Priority. You don't say which module you're using to send mail
> so I can't help you with exactly how you'd accomplish that.
>
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