I received a comment from a client the other day stating that the plain text email generated by their site (using cfmail) no longer looks like plain text when they get it (this is after an upgrade to CFMX). Huh???
After digging into things a bit, I found that cfmail now uses Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 for plain text emails. CF5 used Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii". When the email is viewed in Outlook, the encoding causes it to render a bit differently: UTF-8: http://www.riseinteractive.com/UTF-8.gif us-ascii: http://www.riseinteractive.com/us-ascii.gif Adding the following solved the issue: <cfmailparam name="MIME-Version" value="1.0" /> <cfmailparam name="Content-Type" value="text/plain; charset=us-ascii" /> This leads me to the question - Is there a reason to leave it as UTF-8 encoding? Or can I switch the charset to us-ascii and not worry about it? TIA, chris ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
