Re: Choices: Convert HTML to text

On 6 Oct, Richard Porter wrote in message
    <eb73e9fe57.ricp@...>:

> On 6 Oct 2019 John Rickman  wrote:
>
> > The email in question is an invitation to a party and has graphics. It
> > would be useful if the recipients could see it as intended with
> > graphics.
> 
> > None of the recipients is likely to be using Messenger so probably see
> > HTML, no text as default for emeils.
> 
> Mainstream mail clients will display the html part if there is one,
> otherwise they display plain text. You may or may not be able to set the
> default for outgoing messages to plain text.
> 
> I guess you could reply by quitting your transport layer e.g. POPstar,
> editing the html source, posting it and then editing the queued message to
> change the content-type to text/html. Finally restart the transport layer
> to send the message. It will be messy!

The graphics will be a challenge, as using attachments as embedded graphics
in emails is "non trivial" (in the sense that you have to build the MIME
structure up in a very specific way, and handle the image block IDs in the
correct manner, too).

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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