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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 8, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-html-emails-appear-as-html-code-in-email-client/169770 "2009-06-08T14:04:13Z")\
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**Author:**  [@creativetags](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/creativetags)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-html-emails-appear-as-html-code-in-email-client/169770/1 "2009-06-08T14:04:13Z")
Hi
I’m trying to send multipart emails with something like this:
Taken from [ActionMailer::Base](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionMailer/Base.html)
[code=] class ApplicationMailer \< ActionMailer::Base
def signup\_notification(recipient)
recipients recipient.email\_address\_with\_name
subject “New account information”
from “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid”
content\_type “multipart/alternative”
```
part :content_type => "text/html",
:body => render_message("signup-as-html", :account =>
```
recipient)
```
part "text/plain" do |p|
p.body = render_message("signup-as-plain", :account =>
```
recipient)
p.transfer\_encoding = “base64”
end
end
end[/code]
I have 2 view files signup-as-html.text.html.erb and signup-as-
plain.text.plain.erb
I sent a test email and picked it up in Apple Mail but it displays the
HTML code instead of rendering it.
Any idea why?
Mark
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**Author:**  [@creativetags](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/creativetags)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-html-emails-appear-as-html-code-in-email-client/169770/2 "2009-06-08T14:30:43Z")
This article got me working:
[http://www.caboo.se/articles/2006/02/19/how-to-send-multipart-alternative-e-mail-with-inline-attachments](http://www.caboo.se/articles/2006/02/19/how-to-send-multipart-alternative-e-mail-with-inline-attachments)
Still seems broken though