Mime-Type For sending Rich text emails

[alfbennett]

Hello,
I hope somone here will be able to help with this problem. I am trying to get an email sent in rtf to display on outlook email clients. I am readin an .rtf file into the output buffer then trapping the buffer contents into a variable, the variable is then passed to my mail function which attempts to send it as rich text. the email arrives with the following header information (some header information has been omitted, as it pertains to servers, not the email)

....
To: Alfred Bennett<[e-mail]>
Subject: Testing the Email_engine
From: Alfred Bennett <[e-mail]>
Reply-to: [e-mail]
Content-Type: text/richtext;

I must be setting the "Content-Type:" wrong somehow, because the mail displays as plaintext, with all the rtf garbage showing.
Does anyone here know what I might be doing wrong?

[dannys]

Have you tried with other email readers? I do know that text/richtext is now considered obsolete and has been replaced by text/enriched, so you may want to try that.

You may want to try leaving the semicolon off too. It doesn't look like you're adding the Content-Transfer-Encoding header either.

You say 'rtf garbage' - surely you would have to base64 encode the RTF data first as email doesn't support binary data.

As a last point, does Outlook even read RTF data? I thought only text/plain and text/html were supported.

[alfbennett]

Thanks Danny,

the rtf garbage was text tags, so I do not think that there was any binary data. No I was not adding the Content-Transfer-Encoding header at all. I do believe the Outlook (but not outlook express) Can read and edit rich text. And finaly, I had no idea that text/richtext was obsolete. Looks like I need to finish my homework.

Many warm thanks for your help,
Alfred