in reply to email for both plain text and html

Unless you have magical powers (or you control the recipient's environment), you can't determine what the recipient can/cannot accept.

The most you can do is to send both html and plain text versions (which is what most all email clients do), and let the recipient choose which one she wants.

Of course, the best you can do is to not bother with HTML at all... just send plain text message only.

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Re^2: email for both plain text and html
by herveus (Prior) on Aug 24, 2005 at 17:27 UTC
    Howdy!

    Amen! ++

    If you *must* send a text/html part, do not neglect to send it as text/plain as well. Otherwise, you run the risk of having your message appear to be empty to those of us who eschew the hazards of interpreting HTML markup in a mail client. Further, mailing lists will not infrequently strip out non-text parts.

    yours,
    Michael
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