How do I send both HTML and TEXT emails? 1

XxS87xX · Jun 16, 2003

I've tried doing it this way, but sending to hotmail, nothing shows up and sending to my domain outlook account gives me the same thing. Nothing shows in the client!?
Any help greatly appreciated.

Here's my code(I've used "[" instead of "<" for tags):

[cfmail from="dfosbery@infinitygroup.com"
to="dfosbery@infinitygroup.com"
cc="dfosbery@hotmail.com"
subject="newsletter test"]
[cfmailparam name="Content-Type" value='multipart/alternative; boundary="123MuLtIpArT BoUnDaRy"']

--123MuLtIpArT BoUnDaRy
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

this is the text body

--123MuLtIpArT BoUnDaRy
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

[body]

[td bgcolor="Silver"]this is the HTML body[/td]

[/body]

--123MuLtIpArT BoUnDaRy--

[/cfmail]

Extras · Jun 16, 2003

This is not the direct answer, but I have heard folks using this tag successfully...

http://mysecretbase.com/page_25.html

csteinhilber · Jun 17, 2003

The devil is in the details, unfortunately.

Extra spaces and carriage returns will kill a multi-part email faster than a T1.

You have, for example, extra spaces to the left of the

Code:

<CFPARAM>

tag. And extra spaces after your boundaries. You also have extra lines between the

Code:

<CFPARAM>

and the first boundary as well as extra lines between the last boundary and the closing

Code:

</CFMAIL>

tag. Also, the lines between the boundaries and the content must not contain any spaces or characters... just a carriage return. It looks like yours contain spaces (particularly the line between the HTML header and the HTML content). These all can contribute to your email client deciding that the message is not multi-part... even though you're setting it up as such.

Also, it's advised to include the standard

Code:

<html>

tags, etc, in your HTML content.

I would also recommend always using double-quotes to designate values of CF attributes, instead of the single quotes you use in the cfmailparam tag. You can include quotes in the value by escaping them (doubling them up).

And finally... I'm not sure a multi-word boundary specification is supported across the board. Better to make it a single word... and save yourself the headache by stuffing it into a CF variable, so you're always 100% assured that it's exactly the same everywhere.

So something like this:

Code:

<cfset mailboundary = &quot;123MuLtIpArT-BoUnDaRy&quot;>
cfmail from=&quot;dfosbery@infinitygroup.com&quot;
        to=&quot;dfosbery@infinitygroup.com&quot; 
        cc=&quot;dfosbery@hotmail.com&quot;
        subject=&quot;newsletter test&quot;>

<cfmailparam name=&quot;Content-Type&quot; value=&quot;multipart/alternative; boundary=&quot;&quot;#mailboundary#&quot;&quot;&quot;>
--#mailboundary#
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=&quot;iso-8859-1&quot;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

This is the text body

--#mailboundary#
Content-Type: text/html; charset=&quot;iso-8859-1&quot;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

	<html>
	<head>
	   <title>newsletter test</title>
	</head>
		
        <body>
        <table>
             <tr>
                <td bgcolor=&quot;Silver&quot;>this is the HTML body</td>
            </tr>
        </table>            
        </body>
	</html>

--#mailboundary#-- 
</cfmail>

I think the main offender in your case was the extra spaces you had in the blank lines between the header for each section and the content for the section. They should always be:

Code:

--myboundary

Code:

CRLF

Code:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=&quot;iso-8859-1&quot;

Code:

CRLF

Code:

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Code:

CRLF

Code:

CRLF

Code:

My content

Code:

CRLF

Code:

--myboundary

Code:

CRLF

Code:

You had:

Code:

--myboundary

Code:

CRLF

Code:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=&quot;iso-8859-1&quot;

Code:

CRLF

Code:

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Code:

CRLF

Code:

space space space

Code:

CRLF

Code:

My content

Code:

CRLF

Code:

--myboundary

Code:

CRLF

Code:

Like I said... the devil's in the details.

-Carl

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How do I send both HTML and TEXT emails? 1

XxS87xX

Technical User

Extras

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csteinhilber

Programmer

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