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Robert Corvus
I'm trying to get an app to send a recipient an email that is in HTML
format if they can receive HTML emails, but sends the recipient a Plain
Text email if they can't get HTML email. I want the recipient to just
receive one email (an HTML email if they can get it, otherwise just a
Plain Text email).
Someone told me that the email viewer (Iike Outlook) will just ignore
the Plain Text email if you just send one of each with the same Subject,
but I've tested this and my Outlook gets BOTH the HTML and the Plain
Text emails.
Is there a query that I need to do to the recipient to find out if their
mail server receives HTML, and then fire my emailer based on the query
result?
--Robert
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Ryan Trudelle-Schwarz
I=92m not sure about CDO but in most cases, when a =93HTML=94 messages =
goes
out it also has a plain text version that ships in the same message.
=A0
General format is like so:
=A0
Body:
=A0 ----- divider
=A0=A0=A0 plain text version
=A0 ---- divider
=A0=A0=A0 html version
=A0
This is all per the MIME specs.
=A0
Likely what your friend was referring to is that Outlook will default to
showing the html version and ignore the plain text version.
=A0
=A0
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Corvus [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address]=20
=A0
I'm trying to get an app to send a recipient an email that is in HTML
format if they can receive HTML emails, but sends the recipient a Plain
Text email if they can't get HTML email.=A0 I want the recipient to just
receive one email (an HTML email if they can get it, otherwise just a
Plain Text email).=A0=20
Someone told me that the email viewer (Iike Outlook) will just ignore
the Plain Text email if you just send one of each with the same Subject,
but I've tested this and my Outlook gets BOTH the HTML and the Plain
Text emails.
Is there a query that I need to do to the recipient to find out if their
mail server receives HTML, and then fire my emailer based on the query
result?
--Robert

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