Scott is correct. Although most clients don't follow the "rules" involved
with this. Sending HTML email is still one of those things that will never
work how you want 100% of the time.

Brad
www.bvstools.com


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Actually, you should not just put the plaintext before the <html> tag.
Instead, you should use the MIME multipart/alternative, and offer plain
text and HTML as alternatives.

If you just put the text before the <html> tag, then many plain text
e-mail clients won't even display it, because they'll think it's part of
the HTML document.

-SK

On 2/28/2013 4:15 PM, Voris, John wrote:
And sending plain text of the message in very beginning before the
<HTML> tags start in the message is also important.
This is important for visually impaired folks using screen readers, and
anyone using an older online webmail system like my ISP uses, so they can
read the message as MIME/TEXT real text.



. . . being able to render content as HTML.
My approach to controlling email content is simply to send a
notification that is just that, a notification in text format.

- John V.

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