[ZendTo] Re: HTML Email formatting?

[Jules]

But if you only use text/html, then only mail apps that can display HTML 
(and are configured to do so) can/will show any message content at all. 
Anything that can only render plain text (or has been set to just show 
plain text emails, which is fairly easy in Thunderbird and Outlook, I 
believe) won't be able to show anything as there's no text/plain message 
segment at all.

Also, without multipart/mixed you can't embed an image of any sort, 
which many people might want to do so they can put an image in their sig 
like you do.

Jules.

On 11/03/2013 18:34, Gray McCord wrote:
> Turns out I had to change the content type to text/html to make it 
> work. When I used multipart/mixed, Mailscanner (familiar with it? ;-) 
>  ) quarantined the mails and sent me nasty messages. Works great now!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gray
>
> Gray McCord
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>
> From: Jules <Jules at zend.to <mailto:Jules at zend.to>>
> Organization: ZendTo
> Reply-To: ZendTo Users <zendto at zend.to <mailto:zendto at zend.to>>
> Date: Monday, March 11, 2013 9:13 AM
> To: ZendTo Users <zendto at zend.to <mailto:zendto at zend.to>>
> Subject: [ZendTo] Re: HTML Email formatting?
>
> This would require a tiny change to the code to insert the relevant 
> headers, and then a rewrite of the email templates in 
> /opt/zendto/templates/*email.tpl.
>
> The change is in /opt/zendto/lib/NSSDropbox.php, in the function 
> "deliverEmail". You would need to change the Content-Type header to be 
> "multipart/mixed" and set the separator line and so on so that the 
> message was correctly built in MIME format.
>
> If you're up to doing that (look at the headers and source structure 
> for a simple HTML email containing a bit of styled text and you'll see 
> the layout used), then it's not too big a job.
>
> I haven't done it in ZendTo already because getting the email template 
> exactly right is probably beyond the abilities of most administrators, 
> so they would just end up breaking it. Not a good result. :-(
> It's simpler for everyone getting it going if they are just plain text.
>
> Jules.
>
> On 07/03/2013 15:19, Gray McCord wrote:
>> Is there any way to format the outgoing email notifications as HTML? 
>> I'd like to apply a bit more branding to the installation I'm working 
>> on and was wondering if I could make the emails a bit more user-friendly.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Gray
>>
>> Gray McCord
>> /Adapt, Mutate, Migrate, or Die/
>> -C. Darwin
>>
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