Thomas Carpentier wrote: > >One of my lists is a newsletter. I use ThundeBird to write my >messages. Some of my membres can (want) HTML and others not. > >Sending a message in both Plain Text and HTML doesn't seem to be a >solution.
If you mean Thunderbird's Tools->Options...->Composition->General->Send Options...->Text Format - Send the message in both plain text and HTML setting, this sends a message of type multipart/alternative with a text/plain subpart and a text/html sub-part. This is exactly the right way to do this. Assuming your list has content filtering turned off or set to pass all three of the above types, that multipart/alternative message will be sent to your list members. What they see is dependant on their own MUAs and settings thereof. >Apple mail displays the Plain Text only (as immediate >alternative). Eudora displays the two parts, plain text and HTML. No >idea about others programs. Some MUAs allow the user to select whether to display the plain text or the HTML by default. Some MUAs decide for you - usually picking the last (most complex) alternative they understand. Some MUAs do not understand MIME at all. >Is there something to do, on the mailman side, such that the message >is automatically displayed in HTML only (at least at first >alternative) when the mail program permits it and the options are >enabled and in Plain Text in the other cases? No. There is nothing you can do in Mailman to do this because it is an MUA issue, not a message format issue per se. The same thing should be happening if you sent the same message directly to the recipient and not through a list. This is why many people recommend that list mail be plain text only. That is a format that all MUAs understand. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
