solution: multi-part email using [sendmail]

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2001

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texte = For those interested in sending multi-part emails that contain both plain text and HTML-styled information, here's a simple [sendmail] implementation that works. The result is that you can generate HTML-styled emails that are nicely formatted and viewable with newer email clients while at the same time generating plain-text emails that are viewable with older email clients.Here are some hints that I learned in trying to make this work:1. The Content-Type needs to be set to multipart/alternative (multipart/mixed didn't work for me)2. You need to be very careful about carriage returns. You need an extra line (2 CRs) between the Content-Type statement and the associated message.3. You need the ending boundary statement --[boundaryName]--4. It didn't seem to matter whether I quoted parameters or not. For example, boundary=1001 worked the same as boundary=1001.------------------------ START ------------------------[sendmail to=toName@myDomain.com&from=fromName@myDomain.com&subject=A multi-part message&date=[date]&time=[time]&MIME-version=1.0&Content-Type=multipart/alternative;boundary=1001]--1001Content-Type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1

Here's the HTML-styled message

--1001Content-Type:text/plain;charset=us-asciiHere is the plain text message.--1001--[/sendmail]------------------------ END ------------------------Here's the resulting text file that is generated and put into the EmailFolder folder by WebCat (alternatively, you could use a [writefile] context to generate a file with this format instead of the [sendmail] context):------------------------ START ------------------------to: toName@myDomain.comfrom: fromName@myDomain.comsubject: A multi-part messagedate: 06/21/2001time: 21:53:47MIME-version: 1.0Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary=1001--1001Content-Type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1

Here's the HTML-styled message

--1001Content-Type:text/plain;charset=us-asciiHere is the plain text message.--1001-------------------------- END -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

solution: multi-part email using [sendmail] (Brian Wachter 2001)

For those interested in sending multi-part emails that contain both plain text and HTML-styled information, here's a simple [sendmail] implementation that works. The result is that you can generate HTML-styled emails that are nicely formatted and viewable with newer email clients while at the same time generating plain-text emails that are viewable with older email clients.Here are some hints that I learned in trying to make this work:1. The Content-Type needs to be set to multipart/alternative (multipart/mixed didn't work for me)2. You need to be very careful about carriage returns. You need an extra line (2 CRs) between the Content-Type statement and the associated message.3. You need the ending boundary statement --[boundaryName]--4. It didn't seem to matter whether I quoted parameters or not. For example, boundary=1001 worked the same as boundary=1001.------------------------ START ------------------------[sendmail to=toName@myDomain.com&from=fromName@myDomain.com&subject=A multi-part message&date=[date]&time=[time]&MIME-version=1.0&Content-Type=multipart/alternative;boundary=1001]--1001Content-Type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1

Here's the HTML-styled message

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solution: multi-part email using [sendmail]

2001

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