The problem with multipart/alternative though is that not all email
clients are able to handle it. A few of them just spit out both formats.
Not the nicest thing to see... :~/

I'm putting together the next installment of Burpeenews-HTML now, and
I'm running into a problem along the way. Some mail servers place line
breaks at 72 chars >:~<  I've got some image links that can't go through
because of it... If it wasn't for the fact that they're paying me good
money to do it I'd refuse.

Ben Parker wrote:
> 
> 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.

-- 
Jonathan Waggoner
Web Developer
National Gardening Association
http://www.garden.org