On 4 February 2010 16:44, Skip Evans <skip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey all, > > First, let me say thanks for all the advice on Magento, and especially to > Ryan who has used the beast and gave some great advice on skinning, links to > some good docs and a book just for my designer. We'll be using and I'm > looking forward to learning it. > > But anyway... > > I'm doing some maintenance work on a system that sends an email message > using the multi-part boundaries to include both a plain text version and an > HTML version of an email. > > I've read up on this before, but never actually done it. So implementing the > code was not a big issue, and in fact it works perfectly when tested on my > Ubuntu machine using Thunderbird to test the HTML and Evolution to test the > plain text version. In fact, I can switch formats on both of these and all > looks great. > > Enter Microsoft (Insert opening of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor to > send chills up my readers' spines.) > > On Outlook 2007 in HTML mode it renders, how can I put this... half-assedly. > In text mode the whole things a bust. There is the HTML code all stuffed up > at the top, boundary codes are visible, just plain awful. > > Googling around I see articles from 2007 when that version of Outlook came > out lamenting the fact that MS pulled the IE rendering engine from it and > replaced it with MS Word's renderer to plug security holes expoitable via > email. > > Does anyone have any experience with HTML & plain text multi-part messages > and Outlook 2007, or any tips how I can get this working? Still Googling, > but any tips would be greatly appreciated. > > Skip > -- > ==================================== > Skip Evans > PenguinSites.com, LLC > 503 S Baldwin St, #1 > Madison WI 53703 > 608.250.2720 > http://penguinsites.com > ------------------------------------ > Those of you who believe in > telekinesis, raise my hand. > -- Kurt Vonnegut > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I create HTML.Mime based emails in PHP with a plain text part which is basically a cop out saying that they should upgrade. The HTML part is a fax form. They print it out, add some stickers relating to work carried out and then fax it back (or email it as a TIFF or PDF if they have the skills/tech to do that). I use Outlook 2003 (work) and GMail via Chrome (personal). The form includes embedded images (essentially their logo as the forms are passed to their clients) and have a PDF attached ( a report from our systems about the email they are receiving). All fairly simple. 1 - Plain Text - (Please upgrade) 2 - Alternative HTML 3 - Embedded images 4 - Attachment For this, I use RMail from phpguru.org (previously known as html_mime_mail5) http://www.phpguru.org/static/Rmail The HTML I used contains limited CSS and is table based. I initially did it "properly", or so I thought. I'd used IE7/FireFox/Safari/Opera as a test of a proper HTML page with CSS to produce a nice looking form. Scaled nicely, limited shrink, etc. Looked OK in Outlook 2003 too! But when I sent them for approval to the line manager, who uses Outlook 2007, well, let's just say he didn't understand the form at all! Even when I redid it with tables, I'd used <thead>, <tfoot>, <tbody> (proper HTML at least). In O2K7? It renders in order - header, footer, body. Great! So, the HTML I ended up with REALLY looks like something from when I was first learning HTML (I just worked it out as being 13 years ago!). So, yes. The code is horribly old fashioned. But it works. -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
