Re: [mv] Rich Text

[Kenn Martin <kmartin@infoteam.com>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 12:10:58AM -0000, Peter Bingham wrote:
> ******    message to minivend-users from "Peter Bingham" <Pete@pbingham.freeserve.co.uk>     ******
> 
> I thought it would be good to send customers nice receipts in Rich Text
> (HTML) format. The formatting of the e-mail usually looks a mess when the
> recipients default font is not fixed-width. It would be nice to display the
> ordered items in a table, with costs subtotals etc in neat columns. I
> achieved little from messing around with mime tags, headers, boundaries etc.
> Has anyone out there managed to achieve this with the current tags
> available?

Be very careful if you go to HTML in any email messages, receipt or
otherwise.  A customer of ours learned the hard way after permanently
losing a number of customers.

kenn