Re: text vs html email readers

i don't understand your question (are you asking about specific 
applications or about how they work), but sending hybrid e-mails is all 
about e-mail headers and content-boundaries. for example if you want to 
send a hybrid e-mail via php you have to specify it in the header 
something like this:

$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\n 
boundary=\"BOUNDARY12345\"";

and in the body/content you have to separate the different parts with 
the specified boundary.
for example:

$content .= "--BOUNDARY12345
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

plain text email here

--BOUNDARY12345
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

html email code here

--BOUNDARY12345--";

i'm sure that with some modifications you can use similiar code in othe 
languages as well.
hope this helped somewhat
happy holidays to all

peeter

>Happy Holidays all!
> 
>We are adding some email flexibility into our cms package and I was wondering if there are any programmers out there that might know how some of the email management packages out there are able to offer a hybrid sender that recognizes and displays emails either in html/text format depending on the readers systems settings/abilities?  Is there some code floating around out there that would facilitate this? 
> 
>Any suggestions would be warmly appreciated!
> 
>Best and Warmest, 
>Mike Blazedell @ http://mmprove.com
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