[thelist] AOL email problems

Timothy J. Luoma lists at tntluoma.com
Wed Aug 28 11:55:00 CDT 2002


Irubin Consulting wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wrote a perl application that sends an HTML email to an AOL account. As I
> attempt to view the email in AOL, it seems as if AOL parsed and added the
> following line

> Any ideas?


AOL doesn't accept regular HTML email.

Most of the newsletters out there have 3 versions
1) plain text
2) HTML
3) AOL Enhanced

So your options are mostly limited to
1) let them eat ASCII
2) figure out AOL enhanced's requirements

TjL



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