Sending HTML email

[letom]

Hi Beverley,

Thanks..

Nice tutorial in first look.

My next question is for testing the output..
all modern browsers are supporting html mails, allows me to test the HTML mail, howbeit how can i test the text version of mail.

Is Lynx browser is applicable for that ?then i cannot use lynx for testing it from my desktop mail client
OR
Web developer plugin of mozilla is sufficient or any other suggestions you have ?

Moreover i will post the result of the output here.

Regards
Tom

[Beverleyh]

all modern browsers are supporting html mails, allows me to test the HTML mail, howbeit how can i test the text version of mail.

I'm not really sure about that. My own web host only provides a really old, text-based email client on my oldest account, although my newer accounts have much prettier html email clients, so I'm lucky enough to be able to send out test emails and see both results.

I would imagine that there'd be a setting somewhere in most email clients that allows you to turn-off HTML emails and just display plain text though.

Here's how to do it in gmail so maybe you could just sign up for a gmail account and test there? http://webapps.stackexchange.com/que...il/43911#43911

[traq]

My next question is for testing the output..
all modern browsers are supporting html mails, allows me to test the HTML mail. howbeit how can i test the text version of mail.

Browsers allow you to view your HTML, yes - but again, most emails are not viewed in browsers. If you want to test your emails, it would be advisable to test them in email clients (e.g., Thunderbird or Outlook), not in web browsers.

Testing text-only emails is easy: the message will look the same as it does in your plain text editor.

[letom]

Browsers allow you to view your HTML, yes - but again, most emails are not viewed in browsers. If you want to test your emails, it would be advisable to test them in email clients (e.g., Thunderbird or Outlook), not in web browsers.

Testing text-only emails is easy: the message will look the same as it does in your plain text editor.

Adrain,

Thanks.. under what circumstances the text email contains the coding of html as follows

<table><tr><td>Name</td><td>Jo</td></table>

I think keeping two separate versions of mail under

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n

will give an solution for that and it guarantees the result will produced correctly in all environments by stripping unwanted tags as table ?

[traq]

I think keeping two separate versions of mail under

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n

will give an solution for that and it guarantees the result will produced correctly in all environments

Assuming that your messages are correctly formatted and you use the multipart/alternative boundaries properly, the email client will choose which part to display (HTML or plain text, based on its default and/or user settings), and ignore/set aside the other.

Whether any particular email client will display your HTML "correctly" (i.e., as you expect it to) is a separate issue, however. It will almost certainly look different than it does in the browser (or even any other email client). Getting this "right" is a matter of using the most basic HTML you can, with the most outdated CSS, followed by lots of testing.

under what circumstances the text email contains the coding of html as follows

<table><tr><td>Name</td><td>Jo</td></table>

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Your text email should not contain HTML markup at all.

by stripping unwanted tags as table ?

This will not happen - neither the mail() function nor any email client will rewrite your message.

[letom]

Hi Adrain

Thanks for your advice.. I suggest the phpmailer or swift mailer is the right solution for this.

under what circumstances the text email contains the coding of html as follows
Code:

<table><tr><td>Name</td><td>Jo</td></table>

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Your text email should not contain HTML markup at all.

Iam putting both plaintext and html in message ,
My doubt is whether some email clients will display broken HTML part / HTML coding instead of the HTML design ?
FYI iam using inline and internal style sheets only with tables..

[traq]

My doubt is whether some email clients will display broken HTML part / HTML coding instead of the HTML design ?

Unfortunately, that's not very easy to answer. There are many, many email clients, as well as different versions of each, and almost all of them handle *something* differently. Designing html emails is actually a very tedious task because of this; you simply need to decide which clients are important to you to support and then go test your email in all of them.

In general, you'll be "okay" in most clients as long as you stick to markup that's been around for the last ten years.

[letom]

You have suggestions for libraries other than phpmailer