Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: MTTF messages and HTML
Author: David Shinpaugh Posted: 2/19/1999; 1:21:11 AM Topic: Mail to the Future Server Functionality Msg #: 3030 (In response to 3027) Prev/Next: 3029 / 3031
Turning off the MTTF ad wrappers does nothing to enable HTML mail.For an HTML mail reader to interpret HTML in the message the content-type mail header parameter must be set to "text/html" or "multipart/alternative".
MTTF sets the content-type to "text/plain"
text/html Is the easy way as it's a single part message. The downside is an HTML mail client will render the tags, if the message is received by a non-html mail client then... you'll see the tags in the message.
multipart/alternative is more involved because there has to be two parts to the message; a text only version of mail message and an html version of the mail message. This allows non-html mail clients to show the text only version of the message, and html mail clients will render the html version.
David
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- Re: MTTF messages and HTML, Dave Winer, 2/19/1999; 2:40:28 AM
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