kelly, The mailserver doesn't have a clue about the recipient's client.
On the sending side the sender uses a message format called multi-part mime. Basically the message is divided into mime segments where each segment is defined by a "boundary" string. After the boundary the mime type is defined and then the content follows. So in my "text" segment I could place a text formatted message and in my "html" segment I could place my html formatted message. If the email client reads html then it can show the html message and if not the text. Some can show both. Some can show neither. Terry Fritts Monday, January 07, 2002, 10:47:00 AM, you wrote: kwn> How do they do it? We recently used a company called TargetInteractive to kwn> send an email blast. The blast was in HTML, but, they also prepared a text kwn> version for those whose email client does not accept HTML. How does the kwn> mailserver determine what the users email software will accept (HTML/text)? Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
