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Grégory Juster <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 2 May 2000 16:15:36 -0400
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Well, dies all the email client support the MIME 'multipart/alternative' ???
If so, well, discution is over! :)

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Parker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 4:08 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Bullets (&#61623;)


On Tue, 2 May 2000 15:07:31 -0400, Grégory Juster <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>There's no way to know if the
>customer email client support HTML. Best way in our case, ask the customer
>to choose between plain or html in a form and then send 2 email, one html
>formatted and another plain text.

It is also possible to send a properly formed MIME 'multipart/alternative'
message which includes both a plain text part and an HTML part and let the
recipients mail program and personal settings of that program make the
choice
upon receipt of the email.  

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