Email that can't support HTML?

[Mr B]

Greetings,

We are going to snd out a Newsletter to our members and it is going to be formatted as an HTML web
page. How can I format the HTML so that if someoen's email program can't or won't display HTML,
that it would ust say "Your email program won't view HTML, click here to view the newsletter" and
then just have a lnk to the actual web page on our site?

Is that possible? Or would it be easier to just make the first line some HTML Commenting that says
the same thing so they would see it in the code?

Just looking for suggestions.

THanks.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Why not ask members which version they prefer? Just because they can read
HTML or have the email application set to read HTML, doesn't mean that they
want to receive the newsletter in HTML format.

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[Mr B]

That's all fine and dandy but the first one is going to be HTML so they can see if. We are also
going to have a survey link with it so they can voice their opinions.

But I've seen some places where you can send the same message as BOTH html and plain text and they
just see whichever their email program supports... Or at least gives them a link to the online
version if they don't view Html in email...

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

And if they can't read the first issue...

See:
http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt5/html-email-multi.htm

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.

That's all fine and dandy but the first one is going to be HTML so they can see if. We are also
going to have a survey link with it so they can voice their opinions.

But I've seen some places where you can send the same message as BOTH html and plain text and they
just see whichever their email program supports... Or at least gives them a link to the online
version if they don't view Html in email...