Yes, you can have alternative content in one e-mail message. Unfortunately, this is one area where MS's ASP's CDO for NTS is better. If you are using IIS on NT, you could create a TAF that writes an ASP file or an ASP snippet, and this TAF file could also run that ASP file to send a beautifully formatted text/HTML and alternate text/plain message, but it's (internally) heavily MS branded. And you can even write custom headers with CDO for NTS. You can also do this with Witango. But you have to build the text-only version of the message you want to send, and build the MIME headers around it, and place it all in tango's "custom header", with it's 32k limitation. The HTML version would go into the body.
I helped Gauthier to do this once, he was working on a TAF file to do this at the time. I helped him get his headers "just right". If I recall, his solution was even able to encode the pieces BASE64 (binary) or Quoted-Printable (Text). Perhaps he could offer some help, or even some sample code. The really fun part of this is that you can include an image or two that you use in the HTML version of the page in the HTML as well, provided that they are quite small (because of Witango's current 32k limitation). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chuck Lockwood Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: HTML-compatible e-mail client sniffer Ok, I'm resorting to responding to my own posts! This is a quote I found on an Email marketing companies web site. Does anyone know how or where I can learn how to do this? "The ____ system automatically sends out multi-part emails, which include HTML, AOL and plain text versions. No matter what email program your customer is using, your message will be delivered and viewed the way you want it to be." Thanks, Chuck Lockwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LockData Technologies, Inc. 309 Main Avenue, Hawley, Pa 18428 Phone: 570-226-7340 ~ Fax: 570-226-7341 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://www.lockdata.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chuck Lockwood Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:46 PM To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: Witango-Talk: HTML-compatible e-mail client sniffer How do you determine if a client can except HTML email prior to sending it? If going through an Exchange server, can you pass it both versions and will Exchange figure it out? I'd like to know of any and all solutions using Witango mail. Thanks, Chuck Lockwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LockData Technologies, Inc. 309 Main Avenue, Hawley, Pa 18428 Phone: 570-226-7340 ~ Fax: 570-226-7341 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://www.lockdata.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
