The big thing is that it should also have a Mime-Version: 1.0 header. The Content-Type header is undefined without a Mime-Version header. Most email clients don't care. SquirrelMail does. The View as HTML plugin will check for those extra headers as I recall.
Seth. irwin said: > > > Bruce Richardson wrote: > >>On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:05:26PM -0500, irwin wrote: >> >> >>>I have set up the Options on my machine to view the HTML version first. >>>I don't think it is possible to have every student on campus do this. >>>However even when I have "Show HTML version by default" choosen it still >>>doesn't format as HTML -it is still showing the code as text. When I use >>>Netscape to compose a message with bold, or colored text Squirrel >>>ignores it and just shows plain text. This is what I would like it to do >>>for my ColdFusion mail if it cannot let it render in the browser. >>> >>> >> >>This would tend to indicate that ColdFusion isn't creating a properly >>formatted e-mail. Netscape, you see, is creating a multi-part e-mail >>with both plain text and html versions of the message attached. >>Squirrel can be set to show either the text or the html component by >>defualt. It sounds as if ColdFusion is only creating a single message >>component and isn't even marking it as text/html. You can check this by >>looking at the message headers. >> > > I can believe that it might be the way ColdFusion is sending it. I will > submit this question to the ColdFusion experts. My question now is what > is a properly formatted email for Squirrel? It shows up HTML formatted > in Netscape, Eudora, Pegasus, and MS lookOut. I am pasting below a copy > of one of the headers. It looks like the type is text/html and when I > look at the header for some spam that I got (that looks html formatted) > it too looks the same. What is it that the ColdFusion generated email is > missing? What should I tell/ask of the ColdFusion people? > > Thank you for your help. > > My ColdFusion generated email header: > *Return-Path:* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <javascript:void(0)>> > *Received:* from mailhost.stolaf.edu (fusion.stolaf.edu [130.71.96.42]) > by nic.stolaf.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA24964; > Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:17:06 -0500 (CDT) > *Message-Id:* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *Content-type:* text/html > *Date:* Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:16:33 -0500 > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <javascript:void(0)> > *Subject:* Study Skills Appt. Reminder > *To:* asc, berry > *Content-Length:* 693 > > > My Spammers email header: > *Return-Path:* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <javascript:void(0)>> > *Received:* from saveme.stolaf.edu (saveme.stolaf.edu [130.71.96.20]) > by nic.stolaf.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.1) with SMTP id GAA03023 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <javascript:void(0)>>; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 06:28:17 > -0500 (CDT) > *Received:* from xs4all.nl ([61.39.28.150]) > by saveme.stolaf.edu (SAVSMTP 3.1.0.29) with SMTP id > M2003092906281405212 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <javascript:void(0)>>; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 06:28:16 > -0500 > *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <javascript:void(0)> > *Message-ID:* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *MIME-Version:* 1.0 > *Date:* Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:28:27 +0000 > *Subject:* =?ISO-8859-1?B?R2V0IENhc2ggd2l0aG91dCBhIGNyZWRpdCBjaGVjaw==?= > *X-MIMEOLE:* Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > *X-Mailer:* Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) > *From:* "Sybil Fritz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <javascript:void(0)>> > *Content-Type:* text/html > *Content-Transfer-Encoding:* 8bit > *Content-Length:* 606 > > > > >> >> >> > -- Seth Randall IT Support Specialist Missoula Federal Credit Union [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
