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HTML content type for CDONTS email

Hi all

I'm sending an email with HTML body. When i receive the email the message source shows content_type : "Text/Plain" and then again "Text/html". All the fonts and style sheets don't have any effect. How can i get rid of this problem.

Dim myMail
Set myMail = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")

HTML = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ""-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"">" & vbCrLf
            HTML = HTML & "<html>"
            HTML = HTML & "<head>"
            HTML = HTML & "<meta http-equiv=""Content-Type"""
            HTML = HTML & "content=""text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"">"
            HTML = HTML & "<title>Sample NewMail</title>"
            HTML = HTML & "</head>"
            HTML = HTML & "<body class='12normal' >"
            HTML = HTML & "This is an HTML test e-mail. <BR></body>"
            HTML = HTML & "</html>"

myMail.From = "Example@microsoft.com"
myMail.To = "Someone@microsoft.com"
myMail.Subject = "Sample Message"
myMail.BodyFormat = 0
myMail.MailFormat = 0
myMail.Body = HTML
myMail.Send
Set myMail = Nothing

This is how my email body looks like. When i send the email the content-type is "text/plain" and all the formatting is lost.
The message source shows something like this:

Content-Type: text/plain;
      charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This is a sample message being sent using HTML.

------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C3BE62.FCFE9100
Content-Type: text/html;
      charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type"content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1"><title>Sample NewMail</title></head><body>This is =
a sample message being sent using HTML. <BR></body></html>

How can i get rid of this content type plain text?? Is it a problem with CDONTS setting ?

rhoggren

To be honest, I'm not so sure Style Sheets work in Outlook when viewing email.

Have you tried manually formatting the text to see if that works?

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Alan Warren

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