AW: [thelist] html email vs. text email

[Eike Pierstorff]

Hello,

> I'm thinking that before HTML was enabled, the message came
> and the text version
> displayed.  After HTML, the html version displayed.
>
> Anybody have any thoughts on deploying this and, partuclarly,
> can anybody point
> me to any documentation that will help explain the limits and
> parameters of this
> to me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Grover.


This is called "multipart message". Multipart is part of the
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension Standard (MIME, described in RFC
2045 I think). Multipart allows you to send a message in different
formats.

FROM: eike.p at t-online.de
TO: thelist at lists.evolt.org
...
Subject:  Multipart works something like this
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="delimiter"

This is read by mail clients that can't handle MIME/multipart
--delimiter
ASCII message goes here
--delimiter
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso8859-1
Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-Printable
HTML-Message goes here

....


Something like this. I don't know really much about MIME, so you better
'google' for MIME/multipart.

-- Eike


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Eike Pierstorff
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eike.p at t-online.de

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