why does vb html email arrive as attachment?

[bruce]

I can send an email from any client (outlook, lotus notes), and fill
it with all sorts of fonts (bold, courier, etc). When the mail is
received, the client reads it inline, not as an attachment.

When I send an html email thru my Visual Basic program (using
standard SMTP protocol), it is received as an attachment. How can I
get it so that it is read inline?

Thanks,
Bruce Brodinsky

[John]

can u give us a piece of the important parts of the code?
"bruce" <br*************@glic.com> wrote in message
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I can send an email from any client (outlook, lotus notes), and fill
it with all sorts of fonts (bold, courier, etc). When the mail is
received, the client reads it inline, not as an attachment.

When I send an html email thru my Visual Basic program (using
standard SMTP protocol), it is received as an attachment. How can I
get it so that it is read inline?

Thanks,
Bruce Brodinsky

[bruce]

"Sean Dean" <se******@seandean.net> wrote in message news:<uA*******************@twister.tampabay.rr.co m>...

Header declarations.....

Example content-type declarations include...
1***

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
X-Nonspam: None
2***

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_84KDJFNTUEF209EF376268C8"
X-Nonspam: None

3***

X-Mailer: MOMENTUM (3.0 build(18) [Asynch])
Comments: To remove from all affiliates goto
www.bluestreammedia.com/unsub.aspx
Message-ID: <200222:06:45_43109108@[somedomain].trackingclicks.com>
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Nonspam: None

Sean:
I tried the "Content-Type: text/html" header, as in your example
#3. This is what yielded me the proper html, but in an attachment.
Perhaps I also need those other tags you mention. Thanks for your
input.
Bruce