[thelist] HTML in email

[Patrick Berry]

>>> Jelle Desramaults had the thought that... <<<

> Evolters,
> 
> When we launch our new company website we want to send a flashy email to all
> our contacts/prospects.
> I've played around a bit with an email on different platforms and some
> platforms/email clients don't read the HTML the right way
> because they have HTML switched of (or whatever).
> 
> What i'm looking for is a way to check if HTML is switched on or off and
> then display text or HTML version (thus avoiding any
> ugly emails that will drive our prospects to the firm next door) .
> 
> thx, jelle

Since nobody seems to be focusing on the technical aspect of
this...here goes.

The "right" way to do HTML email is to send the email as a multipart
mime message, with one part being text/html and the other part being a
plain text version of the message.  This way, if the mailer
understands the text/html mime type, it will display the html message
and if it doesn't it should display the text.

Cheers,
Pat

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