What is the proper format for the email to be sent having both plain and
html? I was trying something like what I have below. Obviously it is not
correct, can someone please tell me what lines to use
Server: my server
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:25:14 -0500
From: Whoever
To: whoever
Subject: whatever
X-Mailer: Allaire ColdFusion Application Server
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
HTML Stuff Here
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Plain Text Stuff Here
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Date: Thursday, June 15, 2000 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] plain txt and html e-mail format question
>> Can anyone provide me with information on html format versus plain
>> text e-mail. Can both formats be combined into one e-mail, therefore
>> depending on what e-mail client is reading the message that it will
>> be read correctly.
>
>Yes. Most E-mail clients that spew out HTML (sorry, I'm not an
HTML-in-Email fan) will send both HTML and text. It works by using MIME.
The normal E-mail (text) is sent with a type of text/plain, and the HTML
part is text/html. The E-mail client sees this, and if it supports HTML, it
knows not to show the text part. If it doesn't know HTML, it just thinks
that the HTML is an attachment.
>
>> Reading an e-mail in the web messaging that was in html is screwed
>> up but in outlook express fine.
>
>It could be that the HTML that was sent was mucked up somehow, and set up
in a way that it assumes that it isn't going to be displayed in a web page,
but is going to be the whole web page (duh! What's the point of HTML E-mail
if it can't be incorporated into a web page...).
>
>> On the flip side the plain text message doesn't convey
>> what were trying to convey, we would like to appease everyone.
>
>Typically, the E-mail clients that spew out HTML will send the same thing
in HTML and text. There might be an option that would let you send
different information in text vs. HTML (IE 'If you are reading this, you
aren't getting the HTML version...).
> -Scott
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