[Chicago-talk] Preserving whitespace in an email message

[Richard Reina]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for your reply. I will probably opt for attaching the reports as
pdfs.

Thanks

2016-12-26 13:15 GMT-06:00 Alan Mead <amead2 at alanmead.org>:

> You haven't given us enough information to know where the WS is going, so
> any answer is speculative. But if the WS is being removed and you fix that
> bug, then if you send the email as HTML with the text wrapped in PRE tags
> ("<pre>YOUR-TEXT-GOES-HERE</pre>") it should solve this problem. You
> could also use HTML tables (this is actually what they're for) but in order
> to do so, you would need to parse the information into cells.
>
> These solutions may create new problems, like the text may wrap funny for
> the recipient. Also, most clients use an ugly serif font to display text in
> PRE tags. It's extremely hard to know what an email is going to look like
> for the recipient unless you know what software the recipient uses to read
> email. Most of us use multiple devices to read email these days...
>
> Using MIME::Lite makes it easy to attach files.  You could also attach
> these details in a format that will render correctly, like CSV (or lots of
> other choices, like as an image, PDF, etc.).
>
> -Alan
>
>
>
> On 12/26/2016 12:40 PM, Richard Reina wrote:
>
> I have a perl script that reads a flat file and sends it's contents in a
> text email via Mime::Lite. It works great except when there are whitespaces
> that need to be preserved for alignment. For example, If I have the
> following lines in the flat file
>
> James Brown 123 Washington Ave Philadephia PA
> Kim      Smith  12 5th Ave                   New York     NY
>
> In the received email the look like this.
>
> James Brown 123 Washington Ave Philadephia PA
> Kim Smith 12 5th Ave New York NY
>
> I have also tried converting the email to HTML which does not help. Any
> ideas what approach I should take into order to get these messages to
> format correctly?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Richard
>
>
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