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  • From: Barry Flanagan <address@concealed>
  • To: Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>
  • Cc: address@concealed
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] How to compose a multipart/alternative mail
  • Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:39:31 +0100

Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:
> If you select the html format ("Edit" > "Account settings" > "Composing
> and addressing" > "Compose messages in HTML format"), then Thunderbird
> creates a messages in both text/html and text/plain format both in a
> multipart/alternative MIME structure.

OK, I see that. Unfortunately, the text version is simply a "textified"
version of the HTML one. What I need to do is to specify the two parts
so that the text version can be created with decent formatting, etc.

-Barry

>
> Barry Flanagan wrote:
>
>> Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Most Mail User Agents (Thunderbird, Outlook) allow to compose in both
>>> text/plain and text/html, using the multipart/alternative format.
>>>
>> This is what I want to do, but I can't see how to create an email in
>> Thunderbird which contains both a text and a html part. I can create
>> either a text OR a html mail, but not one which contains both.
>>
>> Sorry, but I am a text-only fellow, and not used to sending/using html
>> emails!
>>
>>
>


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-Barry Flanagan



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