I went and looked up RFC 2045, and multipart/alternative, I guess I could
use an example of how the email should be formatted and seperated, I tried
to send a multipart e-mail using netscape messenger, so that it would be
returned back but everything was cut off after. So I can't figure it out.
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="------------CC85BE4C3763156F7A0352CE"
Thanks Sam
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Stull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, June 15, 2000 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] plain txt and html e-mail format question
>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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