[ZendTo] Re: HTML Email formatting?

Tue Mar 12 16:33:11 GMT 2013

The great bit about open source software, you can tweak it so it does 
what you want if it can't do it already! :-)

Cheers,
Jules.

On 12/03/2013 16:04, Gray McCord wrote:
> Well, you are correct. After brushing up on my RFC1341 I figured out 
> that the reason I was having problems was that I needed to add the 
> "boundary" parameter to the "Content-Type" header and them incorporate 
> it in the template. I actually chose to use "multipart/alternative", 
> which lets me put both an html and text version in the same email 
> template. Seems to work great.  Text-only mail clients see the text 
> version and HTML-capable clients display only the HTML version, which 
> is the behavior I'm looking for. If I use "multipart/mixed", both show 
> up in HTML-capable clients. Plus or minus getting my HTML under 
> control in the template, it works great!
>
> Thanks, Jules
>
> Gray
>
> Gray McCord
> /Adapt, Mutate, Migrate, or Die/
> -C. Darwin
>
>
> 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: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 7:51 AM
> To: ZendTo Users <zendto at zend.to <mailto:zendto at zend.to>>
> Subject: [ZendTo] Re: HTML Email formatting?
>
> 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
>> /Adapt, Mutate, Migrate, or Die/
>> -C. Darwin
>>
>>
>> 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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