We would like to include multipart/alternative (plain-text) support in a HTML email template. I've searched Google for concrete examples, but couldn't find it. It's a classic ASP website with a custom newsletter module. I know that modern newsletter services already support such feature.
The reason I'm asking this, is because there are no clear directions given when searching on Google. Also a lot websites are referring to newsletter services.
The template:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
/* setting font style for Outlook 2007 */
body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,p,pre,blockquote,th,td,span,em {
color: #ffffff;
font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;
font-size: 15px;
line-height: 1.333em;
}
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
p {
margin: 0 0 1.3em 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body style="
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color: #646567;
font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;
font-size: 15px;
line-height: 1.333em;
background: #281E14">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#281E14" style="background: #281E14"><tr><td valign="top" bgcolor="#281E14">
<table width="680" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="DesignTester" align="center" bgcolor="#000000">
<tr>
<td style="height: 28px;" height="28"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px;">
<h1 style="margin: 0; color: #FF0000; font-size: 30px; font-weight: bold;">##Titel##</h1>
</td>
<td align="right" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 15px; padding-right: 20px;">
<img src="http://##URL##/BeheerSjablonen/nieuwsbrief/images/logo.gif" alt="" width="129" height="70">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px;">
</td>
<td align="right" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 15px; padding-right: 20px;">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<img src="http://##URL##/BeheerSjablonen/nieuwsbrief/images/divider.gif" alt="" width="680" height="2">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 24px 0">
##Intro##
##Inhoud##
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 24px 0">
##Films##
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>
Thank you!
Multipart Email: (source):
$notice_text = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.";
$plain_text = "This is a plain text email.\r\nIt is very cool.";
$html_text = "<html><body>This is an <b style='color:purple'>HTML</b>" .
"text email.\r\nIt is very cool.</body></html>";
$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==MULTIPART_BOUNDARY_$semi_rand";
$mime_boundary_header = chr(34) . $mime_boundary . chr(34);
$to = "Me <me@me.com>";
$bcc = "You <you@you.com>, Them <them@them.com>";
$from = "Me.com <me@me.com>";
$subject = "My Email";
$body = "$notice_text
--$mime_boundary
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
$plain_text
--$mime_boundary
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
$html_text
--$mime_boundary--";
if (@mail($to, $subject, $body,
"From: " . $from . "\n" .
"bcc: " . $bcc . "\n" .
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
"Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\n" .
" boundary=" . $mime_boundary_header))
echo "Email sent successfully.";
else
echo "Email NOT sent successfully!";