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Valdis Kletnieks <[log in to unmask]>
Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:34:16 -0500
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:34:11 -0400, Bruno Robichaud said:
> Well we have text; html and aol version is there a better way to do it?

You need to do one of 3 things:

1) Specify something that the AOL mail reader is able to identify as
preferable to a normal text/html, and that other MIME handlers recognize
as something they can't do so they drop back to the normal text/html.

2) Use one single standard-compliant text/html for both html and AOL.

3) Send AOL recipients a different version of the mail.

As coded, you have *no* guarantee that *either* the normal HTML or AOL
version will be correctly selected by anybody.  Non-AOL users will try to open
the AOL version, and/or AOL users will get the non-AOL version opened by default.

I'd personally recommend going with either choice (2) or (3), depending on
exactly what is different about the AOL content.

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