htm plain & plain text e-mails

[lomokev]

sorry did no where else to post this:

how do you send a html mail that has a plan text alternative so that if the receiver can't see html e-mails then they will se the plain text alternative is that possible?

+ is there application that lets you do this? MAC or PC any suggestions? because when i have sent html mails in the past i have done it with a php script

[soccer362001]

Not that I am aware of, the only way is to find out what kinds of emails your recipient(s) can receive, and then go on from there.

[CyCo]

Yes, you can do this using a server-side language. (Perl, PHP, etc.)
You would need to set the Content-Type of the email to multipart/alternative, then the MIME email client should choose the best message part to display. This will provide both a plain text version and an HTML version of the same content. Only one or the other should be displayed, but not both, depending on the viewers' email client settings.

[Fang]

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45728&highlight=email
In PHP: http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/sendmimeemailpart1.php