Robert, perhaps you may look at: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/email/
there is allready an implemented multipartemail.clazz i used them successfully in my application. they are easy to use, you are *free* from the java-mail-api Cheers, matthias > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OT] Sending multipart alternative emails (HTML and text) > > > I've been tasked with sending out emails which contain both > HTML and text. I have successfully implemented this and > tested it in Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, > Outlook Express and various web email clients (Yahoo, > Hotmail, etc...). > > The problem I have is that some users, get the emails > with a message like the following: > > "This message uses a character set that is not supported by > the Internet Service. To view the original message content, > open the attached message. If the text doesn't display > correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then open it > using a viewer that can display the original character set." > > Googling produced the following semi-helpful result: > http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=132654 Now, when I create the email message using the JavaMail API, I use something similar to the following: String text = // get text portion of email body String html = // get html portion of email body /* * Create a multipart mime message where * the client setting will determine which * message is rendered. */ MimeMultipart multipart = new MimeMultipart("alternative"); // add text body part MimeBodyPart textBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart(); textBodyPart.setText(text, "US-ASCII"); //char-set for encoding // add HTML body part MimeBodyPart htmlBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart(); htmlBodyPart.setContent(html, "text/html"); multipart.addBodyPart(text); multipart.addBodyPart(html); msg.setContent(multipart); Has anyone run into a simliar issue? It seems to only happen with Outlook 2003 users, but since I cannot reproduce the problem, it's hard for me to solve it. robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
