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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Sending HTML e-mail
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:09:54 -0600
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"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message 
news:a7t9abpg2p6ghs65f6agsase7cltp9ad8e@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:25:04 -0800 (PST), John Smith
> <yoursurrogategod@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
...
>>So, I have this question.  How can I create a plain table in HTML and then 
>>send it out?
>
> 1) You will likely have to have the entire body of the message as HTML
> -- not just something contained within it. (Unless you actually go to the
> extent of using multipart/mixed or some such, in which you embed multiple
> forms of the message: text/plain, text/html, etc. and let the reading
> client pick the one it can best handle)

And you really ought to do that; not all mail clients can do anything useful 
with HTML.

                           Randy.