Pradnya, I implemented a multipart mime email in Java using velocity templates. I used one template for the HTML version and another template for the text version. Both templates used the same variable names for substitution. The beauty of doing this with Velocity was that I could open the HTML version with a browser and see what the email would look like. I could also edit the email with an HTML Authoring tool. The text version was equally easy to review and maintain.
The Java code that creates and sends multipart mime email messages puts the HTML Body and the Text Body in two different objects. When trying to test the text part of the multipart mime email I found it very hard to find a client that would display the text version. Outlook says that it has a text option but I found that it displayed the HTML Version minus the HTML Markup. The only way I could display the text version was to use gmail. They have a "garbled message" option which will display the text version. Maybe there are email clients for the vision impaired that use the text version. I was left wondering who would see the text version. Regards Todd McClintock -----Original Message----- From: Pradnya Gawade [mailto:pradnya.gawa...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:58 AM To: user@velocity.apache.org Subject: Display of velocity template emails in clients that might not display HTML Hi, I am planning to use multipart email messages so that both HTML supporting and HTML not supporting clients will be able to read the message properly. My question is can it be implemented with Velocity Engine or I will have to necessarily go for template library such as FreeMarker? I already have implemented Velocity based email in my web application, so I was thinking if I have to change my implementation completely or I can modify the same to make use of multipart messages. Thanks in advance. Pradnya --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org
