+=item generate_email OPTION => VALUE ...
+
+Options:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item from
+
+Sender address, required
+
+=item to
+
+Recipient address, required
+
+=item subject
+
+email subject, required
+
+=item html_body
+
+Email body (HTML alternative). Arrayref of lines, or scalar.
+
+Will be placed inside an HTML <BODY> tag.
+
+=item text_body
+
+Email body (Text alternative). Arrayref of lines, or scalar.
+
+=back
+
+Returns an argument list to be passsed to L<send_email>.
+
+=cut
+
+#false laziness w/FS::cust_bill::generate_email
+
+use MIME::Entity;
+use HTML::Entities;
+
+sub generate_email {
+ my %args = @_;
+
+ my $me = '[FS::Misc::generate_email]';
+
+ my %return = (
+ 'from' => $args{'from'},
+ 'to' => $args{'to'},
+ 'subject' => $args{'subject'},
+ );
+
+ #if (ref($args{'to'}) eq 'ARRAY') {
+ # $return{'to'} = $args{'to'};
+ #} else {
+ # $return{'to'} = [ grep { $_ !~ /^(POST|FAX)$/ }
+ # $self->cust_main->invoicing_list
+ # ];
+ #}
+
+ warn "$me creating HTML/text multipart message"
+ if $DEBUG;
+
+ $return{'nobody'} = 1;
+
+ my $alternative = build MIME::Entity
+ 'Type' => 'multipart/alternative',
+ 'Encoding' => '7bit',
+ 'Disposition' => 'inline'
+ ;
+
+ my $data;
+ if ( ref($args{'text_body'}) eq 'ARRAY' ) {
+ $data = $args{'text_body'};
+ } else {
+ $data = [ split(/\n/, $args{'text_body'}) ];
+ }
+
+ $alternative->attach(
+ 'Type' => 'text/plain',
+ #'Encoding' => 'quoted-printable',
+ 'Encoding' => '7bit',
+ 'Data' => $data,
+ 'Disposition' => 'inline',
+ );
+
+ my @html_data;
+ if ( ref($args{'html_body'}) eq 'ARRAY' ) {
+ @html_data = @{ $args{'html_body'} };
+ } else {
+ @html_data = split(/\n/, $args{'html_body'});
+ }
+
+ $alternative->attach(
+ 'Type' => 'text/html',
+ 'Encoding' => 'quoted-printable',
+ 'Data' => [ '<html>',
+ ' <head>',
+ ' <title>',
+ ' '. encode_entities($return{'subject'}),
+ ' </title>',
+ ' </head>',
+ ' <body bgcolor="#e8e8e8">',
+ @html_data,
+ ' </body>',
+ '</html>',
+ ],
+ 'Disposition' => 'inline',
+ #'Filename' => 'invoice.pdf',
+ );
+
+ #no other attachment:
+ # multipart/related
+ # multipart/alternative
+ # text/plain
+ # text/html
+
+ $return{'content-type'} = 'multipart/related';
+ $return{'mimeparts'} = [ $alternative ];
+ $return{'type'} = 'multipart/alternative'; #Content-Type of first part...
+ #$return{'disposition'} = 'inline';
+
+ %return;
+
+}
+