sending text or html depending on client

[designplace]

Is there such a piece of software or script that will display an html email as plain text if the end user can only read plain text emails (it would be good if it could convert it too)

I want to send an email in html format but have it display as plain text too if the end user cannot read html email.

[vass0922]

to my knowledge no, because you'd have to install the application on the client machine. Your machine has no way of knowing whether or not the destination can parse the html.

What about sending in Rich text? You can still do bold italics and font sizes.. just no pictures.
I hate pictures in emails just because the bandwidth required to download them.. very unfriendly to dialup users.

[designplace]

i have actually found a way to do it, using the "multipart/alternative" mime type.

im going to test it from aspemail, which now supports this mimetype within the component.

with anything that is reliant on the end user machine (ala cookies, java, etc) it may be a bit hit and miss as to whether it works consistently, but ill give it a try.

incase anyone searches for this in the future, you can read about it on the following URLS:

http://dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/mhtml-info.html
http://wilsonweb.com/wmt5/html-email-multi.htm