Re: [PHP] Sending "pretty" email

2001-03-11 Thread Chris Adams
On 11 Mar 2001 10:57:32 -0800, Michael Geier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So don't refrain from doing it because some people say it shouldn't be done >for one reason or another. Simply fix those reasons so they don't know any >different. I'll second this - while I personally consider HTML email a

RE: [PHP] Sending "pretty" email

2001-03-11 Thread Michael Geier
mply fix those reasons so they don't know any different. -Original Message- From: Todd Cary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 8:46 AM To: Richard Scott Crawford Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Sending "pretty" email Richard - For me you are po

Re: [PHP] Sending "pretty" email

2001-03-11 Thread Derek Sivers
At 07:49 AM 3/11/01 , Richard Scott Crawford wrote: >The first thing to do is to take two aspirin and lie down until the >temptation to do this passes. It may be cool, but those of us who use >Eudora or Pine for our e-mail don't read HTML-encoded mail, don't *want* >to read HTML-encoded mail,

Re: [PHP] Sending "pretty" email

2001-03-11 Thread Todd Cary
Richard - For me you are pointing out one of the dilemmas I face on a daily basis that I call the "fin dilemma". I coined this expression from the era when Detroit put fins on the cars. These did not make the car perfrom better; they only appealed to need to get a car with fins because the neig

Re: [PHP] Sending "pretty" email

2001-03-10 Thread Richard Scott Crawford
The first thing to do is to take two aspirin and lie down until the temptation to do this passes. It may be cool, but those of us who use Eudora or Pine for our e-mail (because it actually works the way we want it to instead of making us work the way it wants us to like Outlook does) don't re

Re: [PHP] Sending "pretty" email

2001-03-10 Thread Derek Sivers
>I often receive email from commercial sites (e.g. ZDnet) that looks like >a Web page. How can I do that with Sendmail in PHP? The man page for "mail" gives an example of it. http://www.php.net/mail It's just one "$header" line, stating HTML, then the rest of your message should be in HTML:

Re: [PHP] Sending "pretty" email

2001-03-10 Thread Monte Ohrt
Send e-mail headers: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Then in the body, put your HTML. Todd Cary wrote: > > I often receive email from commercial sites (e.g. ZDnet) that looks like > a Web page. How can I do that with Sendmail in PHP? > > Todd >