+# support sending multi-part mail messages with a text and or a HTML part
+# mailto may be a single email string or an array of receivers
+sub sendmail {
+ my ($mailto, $subject, $text, $html, $mailfrom, $author) = @_;
+
+ $mailto = [ $mailto ] if ref($mailto) ne 'ARRAY';
+
+ my $rcvrarg = '';
+ foreach my $r (@$mailto) {
+ $rcvrarg .= " '$r'";
+ }
+ my $rcvrtxt = join (', ', @$mailto);
+
+ $mailfrom = $mailfrom || "root";
+ $author = $author || 'Proxmox VE mail notifier';
+
+ open (MAIL,"|sendmail -B 8BITMIME -f $mailfrom $rcvrarg") ||
+ die "unable to open 'sendmail' - $!";
+
+ # multipart spec see https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1521.txt
+ my $boundary = "----_=_NextPart_001_".int(time).$$;
+
+ print MAIL "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\n";
+ print MAIL "\tboundary=\"$boundary\"\n";
+ print MAIL "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
+
+ print MAIL "FROM: $author <$mailfrom>\n";
+ print MAIL "TO: $rcvrtxt\n";
+ print MAIL "SUBJECT: $subject\n";
+ print MAIL "\n";
+ print MAIL "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n";
+ print MAIL "--$boundary\n";
+
+ if ($text) {
+ print MAIL "Content-Type: text/plain;\n";
+ print MAIL "\tcharset=\"UTF8\"\n";
+ print MAIL "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
+ print MAIL "\n";
+
+ # avoid 'remove extra line breaks' issue (MS Outlook)
+ my $fill = ' ';
+ $text =~ s/^/$fill/gm;
+
+ print MAIL $text;
+
+ print MAIL "\n--$boundary\n";
+ }
+
+ if($html) {
+ print MAIL "Content-Type: text/html;\n";
+ print MAIL "\tcharset=\"UTF8\"\n";
+ print MAIL "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
+ print MAIL "\n";
+
+ print MAIL $html;
+
+ print MAIL "\n--$boundary--\n";
+ }
+
+ close(MAIL);
+
+}
+