Best Practices - Sending javamail mime multipart emails - and gmail

Question

I have a Tomcat application that needs to send confirmation emails etc. I have coded the emailer with Javamail (mail.jar) to send multipart text/html emails. I based the cod

Answer 1

Solved! It seems according to the multipart MIME spec, the order of the parts are important. They should be added in order from low fidelity to high fidelity. So it seems GMail follows the spec and uses the last part. In my case I had them HTML, Text. I just swapped the order to Text, HTML and Gmail renders it correctly...

i.e.

MimeBodyPart textPart = new MimeBodyPart();
textPart.setText(text, "utf-8");

MimeBodyPart htmlPart = new MimeBodyPart();
htmlPart.setContent(html, "text/html; charset=utf-8");

multiPart.addBodyPart(textPart); // <-- first
multiPart.addBodyPart(htmlPart); // <-- second
message.setContent(multiPart);

Thanks for the help!