SquirrelMail relies on the provided bodystructure. If I'm correct it's UW
that checks for the mime version header and if it's not available it
handles the complete message as text/plain => provides a bodystructure
with 1 text/plain part.
There is not much SquirrelMail can do about that.

Marc.


Seth Randall said:
> 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]
>
>
>



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