UTL_TCP Message sent as plain text arrives as html.

Hi
I wonder if anyone knows the answer to this.
I'm using UTL_TCP to send a multipart mime message, basically a plain text email with an html attachment. I have sent this to different users, who have internet webmail ( eg yahoo) or just standard Microsoft Outlook. For some of them, the email and attachement is received fine. For others, they receive a blank email and the body text of the email is contained in a seperate attachment. Is this something to do with the configuration of their email server or the client they are using?
Regards
Salim

Tom,
What I see is only different from what you report in this regard: if preferences are set to use RTF, and begin to compose, the font shown as you type is that selected in the Message font entry of preferences, and is rich text. If you then stop, and make a font change, say to use a another color, and continue to type, only the new text will be that color, and no change to what you have already typed (unless highlighted when the color is changed). When you then send the message, the entire text typed as outlined above will be in Rich Text, and only the portion typed after the color change will be that color. But if you only type in RTF without the color (or font) change, the resulting message will be displayed by Mail as Plain Text, whereas all will be in RTF in the second case.
Thus it is the addition or act of making a second font that triggers the conversion to HTML, including that text typed from the first prior to a separate font selection.
Furthermore, if preferences to compose are set to use RTF, and you are using a Signature containing another font, then the message, when sent, retains the rich text that displays as you type, without using any buttons to change any fonts.
Ernie

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