Forcing Courier font when email is displayed at destination

[Calator]

We send emailed remittance advices to suppliers, as plain text in the body of the message. The advice includes a table that loses its column formatting when it is displayed at the receiving end (eg by Outlook) using a proportional font, eg Arial, as the default font. The advice displays ok when the destination uses a non-proportional font (eg Courier) as the default font.

How can we specify the font to be used by the destination for displaying our message?

 

[jkupski]

The words "plain text" and "specify font" do not go together. That's why it's called "plain" text.

Your options are to construct the message as HTML or rich text, or to create your invoice in a suitable cross platform format (i.e. PDF) and attach it to said plain text emails.

 

[Calator]

What is the simplest way to turn our current message which is sent as plain text, into a message that forces the Courier font?

I am aware of pdf and html but I don't see those as the answer to my question as this would entail a total re-design.

Can anyone give an example of the code the needs to be written to specify for eg rich text with Courier?

 

[jkupski]

Try

http://freshmeat.net/projects/text2rtf/

I haven't used it myself, but it seems to be exactly what you're looking for.

 

[lgarner]

Easiest way? Open your document in Word, format it, and save it as rich text. Then type the .rtf file or open it in a text editor and check the codes. That's how I did it several years ago to get reports to be downloaded from the web in the correct format.

 

[Calator]

thanks guys, but sorry, no stars granted this time.
I found the answer in RFC 1896 and it lookes likes this:
Replace header:
Content-Type: text/plain
with:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/enriched
<fontfamily><param>courier</param><fixed><nofill>

Simple, isn't it?
Does anyone think that there is mail software out there that will not understand the above?