Re: [SM-USERS] HTML formatting from ColdFusion

[Seth R. <se...@mi...>]

The big thing is that it should also have a Mime-Version: 1.0 header.  The
Content-Type header is undefined without a Mime-Version header.  Most
email clients don't care.  SquirrelMail does.  The View as HTML plugin
will check for those extra headers as I recall.

Seth.
irwin said:
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> Bruce Richardson wrote:
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>>On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:05:26PM -0500, irwin wrote:
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>>>I have set up the Options on my machine to view the HTML version first.
>>>I don't think it is possible to have every student on campus do this.
>>>However even when I have "Show HTML version by default" choosen it still
>>>doesn't format as HTML -it is still showing the code as text. When I use
>>>Netscape to compose a message with bold, or colored text Squirrel
>>>ignores it and just shows plain text. This is what I would like it to do
>>>for my ColdFusion mail if it cannot let it render in the browser.
>>>
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>>This would tend to indicate that ColdFusion isn't creating a properly
>>formatted e-mail.  Netscape, you see, is creating a multi-part e-mail
>>with both plain text and html versions of the message attached.
>>Squirrel can be set to show either the text or the html component by
>>defualt.  It sounds as if ColdFusion is only creating a single message
>>component and isn't even marking it as text/html.  You can check this by
>>looking at the message headers.
>>
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> I can believe that it might be the way ColdFusion is sending it. I will
> submit this question to the ColdFusion experts. My question now is what
> is a properly formatted email for Squirrel? It shows up HTML formatted
> in Netscape, Eudora, Pegasus, and MS lookOut. I  am pasting below a copy
> of one of the headers. It looks like the type is text/html and when I
> look at the header for some spam that I got (that looks html formatted)
> it too looks the same. What is it that the ColdFusion generated email is
> missing? What should I tell/ask of the ColdFusion people?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> My ColdFusion generated email header:
> *Return-Path:* <as...@st... <javascript:void(0)>>
> *Received:* from mailhost.stolaf.edu (fusion.stolaf.edu [130.71.96.42])
>      by nic.stolaf.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA24964;
>      Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:17:06 -0500 (CDT)
> *Message-Id:* <200...@ni...>
> *Content-type:* text/html
> *Date:* Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:16:33 -0500
> *From:* as...@st... <javascript:void(0)>
> *Subject:* Study Skills Appt. Reminder
> *To:* asc, berry
> *Content-Length:* 693
>
>
> My Spammers email header:
> *Return-Path:* <syb...@cb... <javascript:void(0)>>
> *Received:* from saveme.stolaf.edu (saveme.stolaf.edu [130.71.96.20])
>      by nic.stolaf.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.1) with SMTP id GAA03023
>      for <aa...@st... <javascript:void(0)>>; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 06:28:17
> -0500 (CDT)
> *Received:* from xs4all.nl ([61.39.28.150])
>      by saveme.stolaf.edu (SAVSMTP 3.1.0.29) with SMTP id
> M2003092906281405212
>      for <aa...@st... <javascript:void(0)>>; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 06:28:16
> -0500
> *To:* aa...@st... <javascript:void(0)>
> *Message-ID:* <IKO...@cb...>
> *MIME-Version:* 1.0
> *Date:* Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:28:27 +0000
> *Subject:* =?ISO-8859-1?B?R2V0IENhc2ggd2l0aG91dCBhIGNyZWRpdCBjaGVjaw==?=
> *X-MIMEOLE:* Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
> *X-Mailer:* Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
> *From:* "Sybil Fritz" <syb...@cb... <javascript:void(0)>>
> *Content-Type:* text/html
> *Content-Transfer-Encoding:* 8bit
> *Content-Length:* 606
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Seth Randall
IT Support Specialist
Missoula Federal Credit Union
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