iMS supports multipart MIME and comes with a CFX and a COM object. However, it's not
free (we do have a low cost mail sending
engine called iMS-SE and you would not need an external mail server).
As a side note: the CFX that comes with our software is open source and supports
multipart messages so you could also retool that
for your purposes as well...
HTH,
Howie Hamlin - inFusion Project Manager
On-Line Data Solutions, Inc.
www.CoolFusion.com
631-737-4668 x101
inFusion Mail Server (iMS) - The Intelligent Mail Server
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 7:28 PM
Subject: Multipart MIME e-mail messages for older and newer e-mail clients
> 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]
>
>
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