Re: FN-FORUM: RE: MIME email type

date posted 13th March 2006 19:44

The workaround for this so everyone (!) is happy is to send your
e-mails in Multipart MIME format. This means that you will need a
plain text version of your html e-mail which can be used to create the
Multipart file.

When the e-mail is received by the reader's e-mail client the e-mail
will be displayed in the reader's preferred format.

Regards

Andy connor

On 13 Mar 2006 15:17:57 -0000, Anthony Cartmell [EMAIL REMOVED] wro=
te:
>
> > The choice on whether to display the HTML or text version needs to be
> > made depending on the capabilities of the current email program.
>
> I agree. That's exactly what "multipart: alternative" is for. All HTML
> e-mails should contain a plaintext alternative part as best practice. It'=
s
> not difficult, but is often overlooked.
>
> HTML-only e-mails are often looked at with suspicion by spam filters too,
> because of the ease with which spam can be disguised in HTML messages
> (white text on white background, tiny fonts, text with charaters in table
> cells, etc.).
>
> If all e-mail was plain text, spam would be very easy to filter out.
>
> Anthony
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