On Fri, 24 May 2002, Fearless Froggie wrote:
I've noticed that a number of online marketing companies now advertise
the ability to send a combined HTML and Text email. The text email
readers then apparently display these as text, and html email readers
display these as html.
I know how to send an html email, and a text email. But I can't figure
out how you would send a combined html and text email.
Could anybody give me an idea of how this would work, or perhaps point
me the way to a tutorial or article? The tutorial doesn't have to be
specifically for PHP -- once I know how it works, I can adapt it to PHP
myself!
Search the net for 'multipart/alternative'.
In a nutshell, you declare the message itself as MIME type
multipart/alternative, then enclose parts with types like text/plain,
text/html, text/enriched, what have you. The MUA decides which format it
prefers.
Bear in mind that some fairly-common MUAs (either Lotus Notes or Groupwise
springs to mind) can't decipher these messages and just show the whole
thing. So make sure the text/plain part comes first.
miguel
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