This case is identical to the plain text case above, except that you can include HTML markup commands in your text to give it "style". Most modern email readers understand HTML commands, even if you don’t bother to indicate in the header that you are using them. (But to be correct, you should set the EMF_HTMLBODY flag in opflags.) If the email reader does not understand HTML, then the reader will see your markup commands as if they were part of the text. But fortunately due to the nature of HTML commands, the text is still likely to be "readable", although the extent may depend on how complicated you make your HTML.
Here is a slightly more complicated example using a configuration file and a file for the body of the message:
EMAILX.CFG ------------------------------------------------
;EMAILX.SBX configuration file
WAIT = 10 ; 10 sec wait for server
SERVER = localhost ; SMTP server on local host
HOST = sabionet.com ; our domain id
DOMAIN = microsabio.com ; default domain for addresses
RTNADDR = email@microsbio.com ; default ‘FROM’ addr
REPLYTO = replyto@microsabio.com ; reply-to addr
LOGFILE = EMAILX.LOG ; name of log file
LOGLVL = 2 ; info summary
BODY1.TXT -------------------------------------------------
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>This is the title</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>This is Header #1</H1>
<H2>This is Header #2</H2>
<P>This is paragraph #1.
As you can see the formatting is based
on
the
P and /P notations and not on the
actual line breaks</P>
<P>This is paragraph #2</P>
</BODY></HTML>
EMHTML.BAS ------------------------------------------------
MAP1 EMAIL’PARAMS
MAP2 EM’OPFLAGS,B,2
MAP2 EM’TO,S,200
MAP2 EM’CFGFILE,S,20,"EMAILX.CFG"
MAP2 EM’FROM,S,50
MAP2 EM’HEADER,S,1000
MAP2 EM’BODY,S,30
MAP2 EM’ERRMSG,S,100
MAP2 CRLF$,S,2
MAP2 EM’STATUS,F
++INCLUDE EMAILX.DEF ! contains needed symbols
EM’OPFLAGS = EMF_BODYHTML
EM’TO = "test@microsabio.com"
CRLF$ = chr(13) + chr(10)
EM’HEADER = "To: HTML Test Department" + CRLF$ + "From: Field Research" + CRLF$ + "Subject: Testing HTML formatted message"
EM’BODY = "BODY1.TXT"
XCALL EMAILX,EM’OPFLAGS,EM’CFGFILE,EM’TO,EM’HEADER,EM’BODY, EM’STATUS,EM’FROM,"","",EM’ERRMSG
IF EM’STATUS # 0 then print "Error #";EM’STATUS;" – ";EM’ERRMSG
