Creating the "Text" portion of a multipart HTML email

html newsletter and text email

[Luce31]

I am creating an HTML newsletter and my client has aked to have a multipart email. This is requiring me to create an HTML version as well as a text version.

How do I go about creating the text portion, what software should I use, how should it be saved. It needs to at least retain the hard returns and spacing.

NOTE: I tried in "Notepad" on my PC and it appeared as one huge block of text when sent.

Thank you in advance for your help!
Lisa

[tedster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Luce31.

As you know, Notepad will preserve hard returns and spacing, so the error is being introduced somewhere else in the workflow - by the actual mail server, perhaps?

I'd suggest testing at each step you currently take to zero in on where the formatting characters get stripped.

[Luce31]

UPDATE:

I did find that each line cannot be more then 65 characters in length including spaces and if you use a link it must be displayed with the full url (http://www.etc....)

Thanks for the response!

[Learning Curve]

Multipart/alternative can drive you nuts the first time! Here's one tip about something that took me days to debug.

Boundaries in your multipart/alternative have to begin with two hypens (--). Here comes the killer tip - the last boundary has to end with two hypens (--). Super easy to overlook.