Angelo Zanetti wrote:
Jon Anderson wrote:
Angelo Zanetti wrote:
So if the HTML files are attachments and the text is just plain text
then will the content-type of the message be text/plain and then each
attachment be multipart/alternative. Please note that the HTML files
need to be sent as attachments and not part of the body.
On my email client I was receiving the emails correctly (IE: message
body and HTML files as attachments) but on my client's email client
they were just receiving blank messages.
I'm just a little confused about the content types as you might have
gathered.
You're trying to do this, right?
MIME Email
-> Part 1: Text Message (The message that you want displayed)
-> Part 2: HTML Attachment
-> Part 3: HTML Attachment
-> ...
-> Part N: HTML Attachment
Because it's a mime email, your text part will be a mime part (an
attachment) as well, but basically any mail reader these days will
render that as the main part.
You want your main email ("MIME Email" above) to have a
multipart/alternative content type. Your text part ("Part 1" above)
should be text/plain. Each HTML part ("Part 2" to "Part N" above)
could be text/html. If you want to force those HTML parts as
attachments you could use application/octet-stream for the content
type - mail readers should treat them as binary. Whatever mime class
you're using should hopefully take care of any encoding that may or
may not be necessary.
jon
Thanks jon, thats what im trying to do... However with the adding
attachemnt you can specify the content type. I have used text/html and
application/octet-stream to force them to be as attachments. They seem
to work in my webmail but when opened with thunderbird I get a whole
long message with binary. Is that a thunderbird problem or is there
inconsistencies in the way web clients and mail clients read attachments
and mime types?
Im going to try my Gmail account and see what I get... Thanks again. If
you have any other advise that I might be missing that'll be great.
Thanks
This is a "feature" of some email clients.
By default, some will display html, images, documents,... inline rather
then as the wanted attachment.
In Thunderbird, look under the View menu at the top.
See the entry about half way down "Display Attachments Inline" ??
This will mess with what you, the email creator, is attempting to do.
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