How can I turn off multipart/alternative content-header in Entourage(aka send only HTML)?

L

Lorenz, Jens

Hi!

Is there any way to turn it off, that Entourage sends a HTML in Plaintext as
well?

If sending HTML formatted mails, Entourage always uses a content-type
multipart/alternative and then adds the mail as plaintext with a text/plain
content-type and also as HTML with text/html content-type.

I know it's great for compatibility, but it also doubles the mail size every
time...

Just to claify, here's an example of the source:

Content-type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="B_3313491657_760791"
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
Click to expand...
this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.

--B_3313491657_760791
Content-type: text/plain;
charset="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

testmail

--B_3313491657_760791
Content-type: text/html;
charset="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>test neu</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT FACE=3D"Arial"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:10pt'>testmail</SPAN></FONT>
</BODY>
</HTML>


--B_3313491657_760791--

So Entourage sends the same text twice, once HTML and for backward
compatibility in plain text.

Regards,
Jens
 
W

William Smith [MVP]

Is there any way to turn it off, that Entourage sends a HTML in Plaintext as
well?

If sending HTML formatted mails, Entourage always uses a content-type
multipart/alternative and then adds the mail as plaintext with a text/plain
content-type and also as HTML with text/html content-type.
Click to expand...

Hi Jens!

You can't turn off the header but you can just send messages in plain
text. If you compose as HTML then the message will be formatted as HTML.
Entourage has no conversion mechanism that automatically changes from
one to the other.

Is this what you're after or something else?

--

bill

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