Adding a plain text fallback with HTML email

Question

I've already seen this post but it doesn't seem to be the method I need.

What I'm doing at the moment is creating an email as a .html file then attaching it in Outlook and sending - What I want to do is send an email over Outlook that has HTML/CSS styling but also has a plain text version as a fallback.

I've been searching and searching and all i'm getting is info about MIME (Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions) and that's about as far as I got :/

Is there something I can simply add to the code of my html file that determines whether to use HTML or plain text?

Answer 1

You need have a multi part email with 2 parts. The first is a text/plain and the second is the text/html. The first part has the body be the email with no formatting. It needs to be first because the parts are suppose to go from worst to best.