Recipient Email Pgm Detection

[Developer8]

How do you detect if a recipient's email program understands HTML code?

 

[danielhozac]

There really isn't a way to do that. //Daniel

 

[RhythmAce]

There isn't - sendmail doesn't send mail to e-mail clients, it sends/relays to servers. The POP3 server doesn't care much either. It just gets the mail off the server and sends it to the client as is. It is up to the client to handle the mail it gets.

 

[Developer8]

Thanks everyone for your help. Here's what I've done to solve the problem. This code is from my Perl program ... and it works.

print MAIL<<EndMAIL;
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=&quot;06986E0E1E196312E032AFBC&quot;

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--06986E0E1E196312E032AFBC
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7 bit

$plain_text

--06986E0E1E196312E032AFBC
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

$html_text
--06986E0E1E196312E032AFBC--

EndMAIL
;