HTML E-Mail *URGENT*

ok got a qick question.. I tried to find out the answer on my own to no avail so here goes. Ive been recently put in charge of a site newsletter. formerly pretty lame with just a few lines of plain text Ive added alot of content and its all put together using dozens of tables. With dozens of links and alot of text formatting along with a few images. Its a pretty heavy html document. In review with the other site staff. The question was brought up, "what if someone has HTML disabled in thier email?" Ive tried, but cant find an email that allowes html completly disabled, so I was hoping someone could help me here.. my main question is.. would it show up at all? just be a bunch of jargon? what??? AND, If I just put a bit of plain text before all the coding, would that show up? Say I put something like... "this messege is in HTML format, if you cannot view the below newsletter or have HTML disabled, please point your browser to the following address http://page_where_newsletter_is_hosted"

would that work ok???

unfortunatly I need to send out the newsletter tomorrow.. day after at the latest.. I would really hate to have to wait another month to send It. But if I dont know how it will look to the viewers im afraid I will have to use the plain text version this time around

does anyone have any helpfull information????

thanks in advance

*~peace and love~*

*~Amanda Hope~*​

 

The option is in the email client and it is usually "View mail in plain text". If that is set, then the email will display as the HTML source. There's not much you can do about that.
You can get really clever and put a reference to a script in your email. This script would binary write out an image and you use this to track the hit to the email (i.e. when the script is hit it updates some database). If the hit is recorded then the user has HTML enabled, if not then it was read in plain text or not read at all.
So you could, based off this, set an option in the database for the email for "TEXT VIEW" or something that denotes it to be a text email to be sent out. Then when your emailer reads the database and sees this bit set to "TEXT EMAIL" then it will not send the HTML email, it will send a text version of it.

HTH
-Jim

 

Thank you so much for your reply!!!! you gave me just what I needed!!!!



*~peace and love~*

*~Amanda Hope~*​