Text Only Newsletters

[woldie]

Hi,

Just out of curiousity, I am currently developing our company newsletter, and at the moment it is a HTML based newsletter, I was just wondering how do you go about the possiblity if the email client is text based only i.e. KMail

Obviously I have to create a text based newsletter template, but from a coding aspect, is there anything different so that it displays the text only version?

Thanks again

Woldie.

[hafnius]

Hi

The trick as i know is to use this:

Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

The newsletter has to consist of both an plain text version and an html version and the email client will select the one suited to its settings.

I dont think i can post a link to a guide but do a google for with the above code snippet and you will find several.
/Hafnius

[woldie]

Hi hafnius

Thanks for the response, thats interesting to know, I'll do a search on Google to get more info.

Cheers

Woldie

[prairie]

Hi Woldie,

If you're using one of the e-newsletter distribution services, you should be able to handle this automatically with a simple preference setting.