embedded images with commons.mail shows attachment

[Dave Meikle <da...@relentlesstechnology.com>]

I'm writing an application that can send an HTML message (and alternate text), using embedded images in the message (cid).  the program works fine, unfortunately, if I specify an alternate text for people who cannot receive html messages the recipient's email client shows a paper clip in the inbox. when you view the message itself, there are no attachments and all the images display properly.  if I don't add alternate text it's fine.  this is important, because many spam filters see this as spam, so I need it to NOT have the paper clip.

I saw an article in a forum where someone mentioned the ORDER of which the mail message is made is important (although i have not confirmed this).  they said it needs to be multipart, text, then html...like this:

Content-Type: multipart/related; 

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
//plain text message here

Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
//html message here

what I'm receiving is in this order:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Content-Type: multipart/related; 
 
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

how do I get around this?