Sam,
See "RFC 2045 - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies" as a starting
point. The specific MIME type you're trying to do is
multipart/alternative.
Bob
In reply to 15 Jun message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>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
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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