My first thought would be to see whether you can interface your taf with a programmable mailing programme similar to what Anthony was referring to with ASP and MS's products. That would save you a lot of work and the limitations of WiTango's 32k header - though, to be fair, 32k is quite a large text message.
With the large number of custom email programmes available, particularly these marketing progs with in-built smtp and other features, there would be some prog that would provide a programming interface which you could work with, and in doing so, get much more than just text/html emails as well. If you do, report back to the list as I am sure that this would be of use to others who have posted related messages in the past. Garth At 10:47 12/07/02 -0400, you wrote: >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 ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
