try phpmailer from http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net


> From: JeRRy <jusa_98@[...].com>
> To: php-db@[...].net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Plain-text or HTML?
> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:25:18 +1100 (EST)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I have created several successful HTML and text based emails..      Its a 
> secret called multipart MIME.    The essence of email really. Just as an 
> attachment is "embedded" into   the same file as the images, html part and 
> textual part.      All you have to do is using 2 seperate boundaries, write 
> out a textual   [no HTML formatting, etc, use correct newlines etc] version 
> out and   then   using same content write it into a HTML template version 
> that can   include formatting etc..    Ensure all images used are also 
> encoded and added as multipart MIME   segments.        All this can be 
> generally easily done via some email clients   themselves.   For example 
> Microsoft's Outlook Express does multipart HTML/Text   emails.    If you 
> just go and create a new email in Outlook and type out your   content in 
> HTML format [ensure you've selected Format->Rich Text HTML]    Then save it 
> and grab the message source, you will clearly see the   boundaries it has 
> defined for the alternative MIME part
>   [the text/html]   and the text/plain part.      Simply reformat the 
> text/plain part a bit if you want.      Voila.. in most cases thats ready 
> to rumble .. use it as an example of   how to work it into your own email 
> generation functions in php.      Works a charm for me ;-)      Good luck, 
> let me know how you go!
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for that, now I understand how it works.  Seen the code, now I will 
> play with it a bit.  Did a few tests and found on some cases the following:
> 
> 1- Yahoo! Mail is tricky to have HTML emails for, some emails, unless 
> carefully designed, come out dodgy in formation when you view the email in 
> Yahoo! Mail Web Format.
> 
> 2- Hotmail seems to like HTML and has a better understanding of how to 
> manage the emails in their Mail Live! Program
> 
> 3- Outlook loves HTML and uses it cutely
> 
> 4- Another web based email at www.tasmail.com formats funny and opens the 
> html email in an attachment, does not always display good.
> 
> 5- www.rock.com webmail dislikes HTML even though they claim HTML emails 
> are supported.
> 
> So the end result is some like some don't, some like to a degree and some 
> don't.  There does not seem to be a good solution even with formatting in 
> HTML format.  I'm just wondering how companies like Yahoo! and Hotmail send 
> theirs out, tried viewing their source but sometimes their tricky.  And 
> being an owner of the servers they have more power over how emails are sent 
> and displayed.
> 
> Sure they have a source email but they can shade out reply, add more code 
> somewhere hidden etc away from the source area.  But their emails seem to 
> come out fine, even when you redirect the emails to a email that does not 
> like HTML a real lot they seem to display as they should.
> 
> I know of a few programs on the net for plain-text to html emails, but the 
> free ones are not a good solution, not sure of the paid ones.
> 
> J

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