another alternative is to have a plain text version
of the email in an html comment at the top of the email.
eg
<!-- -----------------------------------------
I once had a red balloon; then it flew away. Trust no one.
--------------------------------------------- --!>
<HTML>
<body>
I once had a <font color="FF0000">balloon</font>; then it
flew away. Trust no one.
</body>
</html>
that way people see the html if they have an html capable MUA
and they can at least read it if they have a plain text MUA.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 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
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