horseatingweeds Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Has anyone had problems with user agents not liking html email and do they support css? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seikan Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Actually it's not recommended to send HTML emails. for my case, I alway sent out 2 version of emails in my email program. If user's client not support HTML, it'll display the text version automatically. The CSS in emails is a bit different from webpages. You can refer from here : http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2006/03/a_guide_to_css_support_in_emai.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooldude832 Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 you will get about a 20%+ drop rate of emails if they are html because most servers will reject before getting to client the html mail if you really want html, try using a regex to determine the domain and only send html versions to know html accepting domains Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseatingweeds Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 seikan, how do you determine if the user client accepts html emails? cooldude832, so only send html to gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc.? What type of email clients don't support html? This email will only go to registered accounts on my website. It's so general visitors can contact clients for their services. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seikan Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 seikan, how do you determine if the user client accepts html emails? You can refer here : http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php#74873 to learn how to send out a multipart email. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseatingweeds Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 Thanks seikan, So you just send a text version right along with an html version? I see, it's a simple setting in the header. $mime_boundary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seikan Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Yeah, that's what I do. Optionally, you can just add in "This is HTML mail, please enable your HTML in your email client." at the plain text part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseatingweeds Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 How can I test this multiple function? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teng84 Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 basically function asked you to supply the parameter inside the function and surely it works ??? does it make sense ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseatingweeds Posted August 4, 2007 Author Share Posted August 4, 2007 What? By test I mean watch work to make sure it's doing what I expect. All my email servers and clients accept html. I haven't found a way to change this in any of them. So, when I send my multi html/text message to myself, it displays the html version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooldude832 Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 Why don't you make a checkbox on registration that says html or text email and a ? next to it that lets them understand the differences Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horseatingweeds Posted August 4, 2007 Author Share Posted August 4, 2007 i have considered this. It wouldn't be on the sender's end but the client's end when they input the info to build their listing. However, I think of the difficulty I've had explaining the difference between an email address and a url, or what a browser is and that there are more than one, and ........ :-\ Regardless, I'd like to see how my plain text is coming out when incorporated into the above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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