The problem with this is that not all mail clients are MIME compatible and some of
those
that aren't compatible don't ignore the MIME directives like they are suppose to.
Sometime ago, I implemented some changes to majordomo 1.93 that enabled the multipart
digest MIME type for all digests. While this worked like a champ for Pegasus, and
other
MIME compatible clients it did not work for MS Mail users. Matter of fact a lot of my
MS
Mail subscribers complained that they could no longer view any part of the digest mail
messages.
Bottom line, being able to send specific MIME enabled messages, eg. HTML, multipart
digest
is incredibly useful. However, this capability should be provided in such a way that
the
subscriber can pick which format they receive messages in - be it HTML, multipart
digest,
plain text, etc. This choice should be made at subscription time and then it should be
fire and forget.
Kynn Bartlett wrote:
>
> At 11:19 p.m. 04/07/98 -0700, Todd Day wrote:
> >I like the idea of HTML mail so much,
> >though, that I have yet another script that takes the plaintext Digest
> >version and does a damn good job (if I do say so myself) of making a
> >very useful HTML document out of it that I ship to about 10% of my
> >readership (the amount of people who actually use an HTML capable
> >mailer). [description snipped]
>
> This sounds very cool. Would you be able to make this
> available for other people to use? :)
>
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