Re: how to send multipart/alternative (instead of multipart/mixed)

[David Champion <dgc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* On 2005.08.02, in <20050802121539.GA23963@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
*       "Charlie Allom" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I am trying to send out a MIME HTML email with a text alternative.
> 
> I write my text part.
> Attach my HTML file.
> ^D to set the HTML inline (so now I have two attachments as 'I')
> 
> mutt will send it as multipart/mixed. Can I change this? (without
> editing in vi )

You might try this patch:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~dgc/sw/mutt/patch-1.5.8.dgc.groupalts.2

It's not perfect, but it does permit what you've asked for.  Tag the
two (or more) attachments which are alternatives, then press the
<group-attachments> binding (&) to group them.

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