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Martin Waxman wrote:
> Everything seems to look fine with recipients using pop3
> clients. Outlook 5 just displayed the HTML code,
> Several recipients who did not receive the HTML display --
> they saw only what they described as garbage
> I'm also looking for a free or inexpensive "sniffer" that
> will test an email list and determine which ones can receive
> HTML, and which need to receive a plain text version
Have you considered multi-part MIME? I don't think you don't
need to test each subscriber; that's what multi-part MIME is
supposed to be for.
(my apologies if you already know this, but here goes):
A multi-part MIME message contains multiple formats in the same
message, and the mail client is responsible for displaying only
the format it is configured for, including:
- HTML
- ASCII
- Enriched text (this is an RFC standard but I think is
relatively unique to Eudora, and is not to be confused with
MS-RTF).
Is your Eudora client configured to compose messages using
Eudora Enriched Text? I think that's the default....I don't
think Outlook can read that format, so if you are sending a
single-part message in Eudora Enriched Text that might explain
why Outlook users are seeing garbage.
Maybe there's an option for sending messages as multi-part?
Sorry I can't give a more practical answer. The only way I know
to compose multi-part MIME is by hand, but there must be tools
available.
Good luck,
Mike O.
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