> > The mail server isn't involved.
> >
> > The mail client can either send out just the plaintext segment (such as
> > with this E-mail; we choose not to send out HTML in our E-mail), or both a
> > plaintext and an HTML segment (Outlook loves to do this, even if the HTML
> > is identical to the plaintext segment), or just an HTML segment.
>If I send both the plain text AND the HTML email, won't the user end up
>getting 2 emails then, one in just text and the other in HTML?
No. You want to send 1 E-mail, that has both a text and an HTML
segment. The multiple segments is handled with MIME. You can't just
create a "text-and-HTML" E-mail using your own tools (Notepad, Word,
whatever). You need to create the text version with one tool (such as
Notepad or Word), the HTML version with an HTML editor, and then have the
mail client take care of combining them with MIME.
-Scott
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