> Can anyone provide me with information on html format versus plain
> text e-mail. Can both formats be combined into one e-mail, therefore
> depending on what e-mail client is reading the message that it will
> be read correctly.
Yes. Most E-mail clients that spew out HTML (sorry, I'm not an HTML-in-Email fan)
will send both HTML and text. It works by using MIME. The normal E-mail (text) is
sent with a type of text/plain, and the HTML part is text/html. The E-mail client
sees this, and if it supports HTML, it knows not to show the text part. If it doesn't
know HTML, it just thinks that the HTML is an attachment.
> Reading an e-mail in the web messaging that was in html is screwed
> up but in outlook express fine.
It could be that the HTML that was sent was mucked up somehow, and set up in a way
that it assumes that it isn't going to be displayed in a web page, but is going to be
the whole web page (duh! What's the point of HTML E-mail if it can't be incorporated
into a web page...).
> On the flip side the plain text message doesn't convey
> what were trying to convey, we would like to appease everyone.
Typically, the E-mail clients that spew out HTML will send the same thing in HTML and
text. There might be an option that would let you send different information in text
vs. HTML (IE 'If you are reading this, you aren't getting the HTML version...).
-Scott
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