all right. Thanks Todd. I will try to implement multipart messages with Velocity Engine.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:43 PM, <todd.mcclint...@wellsfargo.com> wrote: > Pradnya, > > Yes, the implementation would be the same except that you would be using > Velocity instead of FreeMarker to transform the template into the email body. > > I am not familiar with FreeMarker so I can't comment it. > > Regards > > Todd McClintock > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pradnya Gawade [mailto:pradnya.gawa...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 11:35 AM > To: Velocity Users List > Subject: Re: Display of velocity template emails in clients that might not > display HTML > > Thank you Todd for replying. Thanks for additional info about testing > the plain mail messages. Even I am not sure if I will get client to > test the plain test messages or not. > > After goggling for multipart email messages, I got following link > showing sample of Sending FreeMarker-based multipart email with > Spring: > http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/spring/display/DISC/Sending+FreeMarker-based+multipart+email+with+Spring > > So, if I have to use Velocity Engine then will the implementation > would be on similar lines with a difference of using velocity template > to generate the mail message instead of using FreeMarker templates? > > > Thanks, > Pradnya > > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:14 PM, <todd.mcclint...@wellsfargo.com> wrote: >> 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 >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org
