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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Stull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:52 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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