Re: HTML email revisited

Subject: Re: HTML email revisited
From: "Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:04:36 -0800 (PST)


Martin Waxman wrote:
> Everything seems to look fine with recipients using pop3
> clients. Outlook 5 just displayed the HTML code,
> Several recipients who did not receive the HTML display --
> they saw only what they described as garbage

> I'm also looking for a free or inexpensive "sniffer" that
> will test an email list and determine which ones can receive
> HTML, and which need to receive a plain text version

Have you considered multi-part MIME? I don't think you don't
need to test each subscriber; that's what multi-part MIME is
supposed to be for.

(my apologies if you already know this, but here goes):
A multi-part MIME message contains multiple formats in the same
message, and the mail client is responsible for displaying only
the format it is configured for, including:
- HTML
- ASCII
- Enriched text (this is an RFC standard but I think is
relatively unique to Eudora, and is not to be confused with
MS-RTF).

Is your Eudora client configured to compose messages using
Eudora Enriched Text? I think that's the default....I don't
think Outlook can read that format, so if you are sending a
single-part message in Eudora Enriched Text that might explain
why Outlook users are seeing garbage.

Maybe there's an option for sending messages as multi-part?
Sorry I can't give a more practical answer. The only way I know
to compose multi-part MIME is by hand, but there must be tools
available.

Good luck,
Mike O.

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