Re[2]: [Scottish] html email

Wed May 21 09:40:24 2003

Thanks guys, will play with that.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Calum Matheson" <cbm@gmx.co.uk>
To: "Neil MacColl" <scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 9:37 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [Scottish] html email

> Hi Neil,
>
> On a nice sunny Tuesday, the date being 20/05/2003, at precisely 5:34:05
PM, an infinite number of monkeys controlled by Neil MacColl did speaketh
the following to Calum Matheson:
>
> NM> this is my first bash at this html email thing. We just wrote html in
the
> NM> body of the email and sent it. I know that the headers would have come
up as
> NM> text and not text/html in the content-type. It was just strange that
the
> NM> linux boxes worked that way and the windows boxes don't. I kneed to
know how
> NM> to get a html email working properly, preferably without any
additional
> NM> software, or some way to change the e-mail headers.
>
> >From the X-Mailer header it looks like your using outlook express.
> The only way you can do it normally is using OE's html editor.  Typing
> html into a plain text email will not work (the only reason it appears
> to is because the linux clients you are using must be rendering it
> wrongly).
> You could always start typing an html mail in OE, then save it as a
> .msg file (or whatever it saves as).  Then edit the html within that
> file using a text editor, and then reopen it with OE and send it.
> It's not a very elegant solution though.
> Another way would be to telnet into an SMTP server and write the email
> raw.
> This link explains how to send email by telnetting to your ISPs mstp
> server
> http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html
> You'll need to set up boundaries and all sorts though.
>
> You could write something in PHP that would do this for you.
> You want to have
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="12345"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> in the headers somewhere and
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>
> --12345
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> hello
>
> --12345
> Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> <HTML>
> <p>hello</p>
> </HTML>
>
> --12345--
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> as the message body.
>
> Unique boundary strings can be calculated by MD5ing the time and some
> random value.
> Make sure you provide a plain text alternative for the emails you are
> sending.  It's only nice.
>
> --
>  Calum                            mailto:cbm@gmx.co.uk
>
>
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