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


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