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How do you code and send an email?

I do not mean how to mailto:email@test.com in a website. I mean put HTML into your email and send it. I know how to put code into your email by making a text/HTML document and coding it like a webpage but I just don't know how to send it. Please Help. Thanks!

29th Aug 2018, 5:07 AM
Noah Garza
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Here's how you'd send an HTML email by hand, using telnet (or PuTTY, netcat, ...) https://www.walkernews.net/2011/01/06/uses-telnet-and-smtp-commands-to-send-email-with-subject-and-html-content/ Following this pattern, you can then: ~ write a program to construct appropriate answers to a mailserver... ~ or at least start learning why mailsystem functions in various programming languages require you to do things in a particular order There may be better examples out there (including server responses); this was just the first with HTML. [meta, realtime blackholes] Be careful with noise / getting the client right to avoid getting RBL'd https://mxtoolbox.com/problem/blacklist/dns-realtime-blackhole-list ...or filtered by some algorithm. Probably not a concern if you test with your own stuff.
29th Aug 2018, 5:37 AM
Kirk Schafer
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Here's a really nice screenshot of a full SMTP exchange, plus the SWAKS testing tool for mailservers: https://debian-administration.org/article/633/Testing_SMTP_servers_with_SWAKS Note: Not everyone enables HTML. You often want to also send a text part, even attachments. ...include "MIME" "base64" and "multipart" in searches once you want to do these things.
29th Aug 2018, 6:19 AM
Kirk Schafer
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