[development] HTML / Plain text emails

[Owen Barton]

Hi Guys,

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 15:59 -0800, Neil Drumm wrote:
> After the recent security announcement went out as HTML email there was 
> a bit of chatter. Here is how to make things change:
> 
> - Security announcements and Drupal newsletters are sent using the 
> simplenews module, development will happen there.
> 
> - There is a decent HTML to text converter in project module. If there 
> is a use for it in core I'd be happy to add it, but for now I'd like to 
> see it put in an .inc file which defines the necessary function(s) if 
> they haven't already. Then this .inc can be thrown in any contributed 
> module that needs it.
> 
> - The mime headers part of multipart messages isn't too bad to write. 
> The part we would stumble on is the actual HTML, but we aren't doing 
> anything too fancy and it seems that no one had issues with the quality 
> of the markup (disclaimer: I only skimmed the complaints).

The mime-mail module already does an excellent job at both of these
things (and is already used as a back-end by several other modules).

>From http://drupal.org/node/37911
> This is a Mime Mail component module (for use by other modules). 
>       * It permits users to recieve HTML email and can be used by
>         other modules. The mail functionality accepts an HTML message
>         body, mime-endcodes it and sends it. 
>       * If the HTML has embedded graphics, these graphics are
>         MIME-encoded and included as a message attachment. 
>       * Adopts your site's style by automatically including your
>         theme's stylesheet files in a themeable HTML message format 
>       * If the recipient's preference is available and they prefer
>         plaintext, the HTML will be converted to plain text and sent
>         as-is. Otherwise, the email will be sent in themeable HTML
>         with a plaintext alternative.

I think it would be great if we could get this (or a version of it) in
core :)

- Owen