I am familiar with a special way to send e-mail messages that combines HTML and plain text e-mail into the same message. You designate a section of your message for plain text, and write your plain text e-mail in that section. You also designate another section of your e-mail for text/html, and write the same message again in HTML format. Doing this makes it so that older mail clients that only support plain text or their own proprietary e-mail formats (such as Eudora and AOL versions 5.0 and below) get the plain text portion of your e-mail message. More advanced e-mail clients, such as Outlook Express or Netscape, will ignore the plain text portion of the message and instead display the HTML portion. This is beneficial because you can send a single e-mail message to all your users, without having to guess what e-mail clients they use or bother them by asking what type of e-mail they can handle. Using multipart MIME e-mail messages, one message can handle all e-mail clients. The only drawback is that the messages are twice as large since you have to type the plain text version and the HTML version of your message in the same e-mail message. HERE'S THE PROBLEM............ Cold Fusion doesn't seem to support multipart MIME messages combining plain text and HTML messages together in the same e-mail. You have to choose one format or the other. Cold Fusion does support multipart MIME messages for e-mail attachments, but not for the format of the message itself. Imagine sending out an HTML-formatted e-mail message to all your users, only to find out that 10-15 percent of them could only see a jumble of HTML tags and confusing code, instead of your HTML-formatted e-mail message. This is what would happen if an e-mail message was sent in HTML format only to all your users. Multipart MIME e-mail messages would avoid this problem. MY QUESTION IS... Is there a custom tag, CFX tag, or COM object available that will allow you to send multipart MIME messages? When will Cold Fusion be able to support multipart MIME messages out of the box? I've heard that even the new 5.0 version doesn't support this yet. Thanks in advance for all replies. Jason McNeill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
