sending email (html/text)

[Steven Salaets]

Hi everyone,   Currently I'm working on a small application in java servlets which allows you to enter some information on a webpage (in a form) and a servlet is processing this information in order to send it out as an email.   The email is HTML encoded (as this is a requirement) but since a lot of people do not allow HTML based email I need to find a trick to give those people (that do not allow HTML) something readable as well (probably plain text?)   How can I deal with this? How can I detect the user his email configuration in order to know that he allows HTML or not? Is there some kind of trick to send both (html and text) in one email and based on the configuration of the client it will show html or text?     Thanks in Advance! Steven