Re: html based email
Meuse, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way anyone knows of to send one email in both html and plain text > format? Yes, a multipart/alternative MIME message. But this has nothing to do with qmail. See the documentation for your MUA or webmail provider; any decent MUA has this ability built in. Note, however, that using this format may make you fairly unpopular with the people you send mail to. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
Re: html based email
i was, in a former life, a sysadmin for a major-league list-hosting outfit... no way, no how - don't believe them... it's not possible to float two 'copies' of the message, with reception being dependent on the user's MUA (very difficult to detect on MTA 'send') - also, a lot depends on the end-user's reader -- that's possible to detect (difficult) and absolutely impossible to predict set up two lists: html-listname and text-listname - have your users state their preference when they subscribe - hogan At 08:49 AM 5/9/2001, Meuse, Andy wrote: >Hey All, > > Is there a way anyone knows of to send one email in both html and > plain text format? This is so the recipient will get the html version if > their mua supports it, and the plain text version if it doesn't. > > I know of a service that does this, www.roving.com, but don't > know of a way to do it myself. Except scripting my mailing list to send > only plain text to like AOl and other domains I know don't support html. > >Thanks, >Andy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: html based email
Andy Meuse wrote: > Is there a way anyone knows of to send one email in both html and > plain text format? This is up to your email client. If I remember correctly, Outlook and Outlook Express send messages in both formats, and I'm sure other clients do as well. Check the documentation of your favorite client. By the way, sending HTML and other "rich text" messages is heavily frowned upon in technical communities, such as the qmail mailing list. So, it would be to your advantage to also use a client that can send plain text only, and to make sure your intended recipient won't mind getting HTML, before you send it. ---Kris Kelley
Re: html based email
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:33:56AM -0500, John Hogan wrote: > i was, in a former life, a sysadmin for a major-league list-hosting outfit... > > no way, no how - don't believe them... it's not possible to float two > 'copies' of the message, with reception being dependent on the user's MUA Well, that is, apart from multipart/alternative. Not supported on all MUAs, but it's one way to do it. As an aside, I believe that AOL mail does support HTML, but the idea of doing content on a domain is pretty flawed. Regards. > (very difficult to detect on MTA 'send') - also, a lot depends on the > end-user's reader -- that's possible to detect (difficult) and absolutely > impossible to predict > > set up two lists: html-listname and text-listname - have your users state > their preference when they subscribe > > - hogan > > At 08:49 AM 5/9/2001, Meuse, Andy wrote: > > >Hey All, > > > > Is there a way anyone knows of to send one email in both html and > > plain text format? This is so the recipient will get the html version if > > their mua supports it, and the plain text version if it doesn't. > > > > I know of a service that does this, www.roving.com, but don't > > know of a way to do it myself. Except scripting my mailing list to send > > only plain text to like AOl and other domains I know don't support html. > > > >Thanks, > >Andy > > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >
Re: html based email
Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > any decent MUA > has this ability built in. And turned off by default :) Regards, Frank
RE: html based email
We have a subsidiary that sends out this type of mail. It has 3 parts: plain text html for normals html for aol don't know how they do it, but they do it. -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. > -Original Message- > From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: html based email >
Re: html based email
You already did use an mua that sends both. caspar > "Meuse, Andy" wrote: > > Hey All, > > Is there a way anyone knows of to send one email in both html > and plain text format? This is so the recipient will get the html > version if their mua supports it, and the plain text version if it > doesn't.
RE: html based email
Title: RE: html based email Thanks for the input/opinions everybody. -Andy > It has 3 parts: > plain text > html for normals > html for aol So I guess aol is abnormal? Who woulda thought.
Re: html based email
On Wed, 09 May 2001 09:40:22 PDT, "Michael Boyiazis" wrote: > It has 3 parts: > plain text > html for normals > html for aol Shouldn't that be: text/plain for normals bloat/html for lusers bloat/html for aol users :-) Andy
RE: html based email
another alternative is to have a plain text version of the email in an html comment at the top of the email. eg
