Re: What to do about HTML-only email?

[Tim Pierce]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:00:11AM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:37:33 -0500 
> Tim Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > At some point I'll also get around to rendering text/html messages
> > in plain text for the AOL or MSN toys.
> 
> I don't have an recent AOL mesasges to hand (I auto-reject them).
> Are the HTML messages that AOL sends multipart/alternative with a
> text/plain and a text/html part, or is the root MIME part text/html
> (assuming no attachments)?

They're pure text/html.  No multipart/anything.  That's the chief
problem.  Multipart/alternative we can handle silently, but something
that doesn't even have a text/plain part will get rejected.

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Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator
and Chief Hacking Officer