[summary] Either sendmail or PERL is inserting ! in my HTML email ....

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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:34:14 -0400
To: "'tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov'" <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>

As a couple people pointed out that sendmail will insert
the ! after 1000 bytes line is reached. Which in this case
looks like the culprit.

I inserted a print MAIL "\n"; a couple times withing the
HTML code, to break up the lines so they are under 1000 bytes.

and magically, the ! disappeared.

Thanks for the info.

George

>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Gallen [mailto:ggallen@slackinc.com]
>Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 9:59 AM
>To: 'tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov'
>Subject: Either sendmail or PERL is inserting ! in my HTML email....
>
>
>Hi.
>
>I'm sending an HTML email using PERL (routine below).
>in this case, it's on a PERL 5 and T64 3.2c, I don't think the
> t64 being old has anything to do with it, as it also does it
> on a Redhat 7.2 system with PERL 5.
>
>Apparantly x # of bytes into the email, something is inserting
>an "!" in the middle of the email. It's not the HTML coding, as
>if I add or remove characters, the ! doesn't follow, it stays in
>the same offset spot.
>
>Has anyone had this occur before? Aside from trying to shift the
>email so the ! falls in an appropriate spot :) any ideas on how to
>fix (stop) this?
>
>I've tried breaking up the HTML coding into many lines of prints
>so each line of print is no more than 70 characters. The ! gets
>put in the email, whether I use one line of 600 or so bytes or
>8 or 9 lines of 70 character maximums.
>
>I did a view source on the original HTML, then cut and pasted the
>HTML from the view into the email below. Aside from the ! the
>email looks identicle.
>
>Any ideas?
>Thanks
>
>#!/usr/local/bin/perl
>use CGI qw/:standard/;
>my $PID = $$;
>my $ml_pgm = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
>my $ml_to = 'ggallen@slackinc.com';
>open (MAIL,"|$ml_pgm $ml_to") or die "Sendmail $ml_pgm $ml_to
>would not open
>:$ \n";
>print MAIL "To: $ml_to\n";
>print MAIL "From: webmaster\@return.com <webmaster\@return.com>\n";
>print MAIL "Subject: This is an HTML test\n";
>print MAIL "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
>print MAIL "Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii\n\n";
>print MAIL ".......HTML CODING.....";
>close MAIL or die "Sendmail would not close :$\n";
>
>
>George Gallen
>Senior Programmer/Analyst
>Accounting/Data Division
>ggallen@slackinc.com
>ph:856.848.1000 Ext 220
>
>SLACK Incorporated - An innovative information, education and
>management
>company
>http://www.slackinc.com
>

George Gallen
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Accounting/Data Division
ggallen@slackinc.com
ph:856.848.1000 Ext 220

SLACK Incorporated - An innovative information, education and management
company
http://www.slackinc.com

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