Possible to set font for mail sent from app?

[Josh Nikle]

i'm sending out a text-based mail from my app, and i'd like to put a
table of sorts in it. i've formated my output to form rows and
columns, and it looks great...in courier. can i force the mail to
display in a fixed width font in the mail client, or am i just out of
luck there? does anyone have any other suggestions as to how i can
make a "table" without sending an html-based mail? i'm brand new to
this, so any advice is greatly appreciated.

-josh nikle

 

[Simon Tamman]

Could you not attach the data in a different format to the mail? (a html
file, an image, a doc, a pdf).
I think the font the user sees is dependant on their mail client and the
settings within their mail client.

Or you could tell them to paste it into notepad.

 

[Josh Nikle]

yah, it looks great in notepad. maybe i'm worrying over nothing
here. the whole reason i'm using text mail is that i don't how many
of my users will be using an html-friendly mail client. i may just
have to rework my output and change the table-type layout to something
else. thanks for your help.

-josh

 

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yah, it looks great in notepad. maybe i'm worrying over nothing
here. the whole reason i'm using text mail is that i don't how many
of my users will be using an html-friendly mail client. i may just
have to rework my output and change the table-type layout to something
else. thanks for your help.

-josh

One alternative would be to make a multi part message with both a text
and an html version of the message. Mail clients without html
capabilities will show the text version.

 

[Mark Rae]

One alternative would be to make a multi part message with both a text and
an html version of the message. Mail clients without html capabilities
will show the text version.

Yes, absolutely!

Especially as more and more people seem to be setting their mail software to
ignore HTML messages for (perceived) security reasons...

Easy enough to do as well: http://www.systemnetmail.com/faq/3.1.3.aspx

 

[Josh Nikle]

perfect! thanks to all of you for your help.

-josh