[DUG-TO] Simplenews blank messages

[Ben Smith Lea]

Having recently been the recipient of some good tips on the News
module I am following up with another question.

My investigation of News got kicked off when I was trying to solve a
problem with Simplenews messages appearing blank in certain mail
clients -- particularly, but not exclusively Yahoo Mail (Classic).
Where Simplenews subscribers are not drupal users (and they do not
have to be) there is no method to request text/plain email, and the
problem is that some mail readers don't like multipart/alternative
mail. Or multipart/alternative with a base64 encoded part.  Or
something. It is very time consuming to troubleshoot that stuff.

Anybody know what I am talking about? I have found some threads on the
subject, but not in relation to Simplenews per se. Perhaps it is
something to do with the site's provider.

-- 
Ben Smith Lea
IT Coordinator
Toronto Cyclists Union