Email Formats

[matchoo]

Hey...

I wrote an application that works like Plaxo. It provides a bulk email invitation service so that people can add their contact information to your address book. I built it because I bought a new Pilot and I didn't want to enter 100 addresses -- I just emailed 100 people and THEY put in their own. Then they can do the same with their friends, if they want.

I do, actually, have a question. This wasn't just about promoting my open-source app. Though I would love people to try it out and let me know what they think! Link at bottom of message.

So my question is this...

I send email as follows:
[FONT=courier new]
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: contact manager <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$message = "whatever";
mail("[e-mail],subject,$message,$headers);
[/FONT]
The problem I having with this is that text email clients are showing all the html tags while html-enabled email clients are not necesarily printing line breaks without break (br) or paragraph (p) tags.

I know there is prob. no solution - no way to make everyone happy... but I just thought I would throw it out there if anyone has some magical cure for the impossible.

Thanks

-Matt

The contact manager lives at http://sourceforge.net/projects/info2me/

[mtmosier]

Send your email as a multipart email with both text/plan and text/html. Email clients should automatically display the text only part if they don't support html.