[okfn-help] help to embed both html and plain text in one emssage

Tue May 22 11:46:37 UTC 2012

I don't have Microsoft mail.

Do we have any links at all to someone who might know how to send
multipart/alternative emails? I have come across some templates but they
are all in PHP and I have no idea how to go about this.

some webpages which seemed to point vaguely in some kind of helpful
direction:

http://search.cpan.org/~yves/MIME-Lite-3.01/lib/MIME/Lite.pm#Send_an_HTML_document..._with_images_included

http://www.enewsletterpro.com/articles/multi_part_mime_messages.asp

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6511567/php-mail-multipart-alternative-for-html-plain-text-emails

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/882712/sending-html-email-in-python

I am ideally looking for a way to just do this in Gmail, but maybe this is
impossible....

Any help appreciated,

Adam.

On 16 May 2012 12:24, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:

> I've actually seen this done with mail originating from MS. I can't
> remember quite how it was done, but am fairly sure there were two messages
> sent with different MIME types.
> On May 9, 2012 10:54 PM, "Sam Smith" <sam.smith at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Adam
>>
>> I'd recommend using a third party to send bulk email. One such service is
>> http://mailchimp.com/ it will guide you through adding a plain text
>> version.
>>
>> Sam
>>
>> On 9 May 2012 11:41, Adam Green <adam.green at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I was wondering whether anyone on the team might know how to go about
>>> sending an HTML email with a plain text alternative embedded within it. I
>>> have a HTML email all set up and ready to send (this is for the PDR
>>> 'newsletter'), but I really want to make sure that subscribers with email
>>> clients that don't do HTML emails can automatically receive a plain text
>>> version instead.
>>>
>>> I have had a look about on the internet and its proving hard to pin down
>>> a "How To". Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Adam.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Adam Green
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
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>> Sam Smith
>> Designer
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