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punchdrunk
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Calgary,Ab Canada
Insane since: May 2001

posted posted 05-15-2001 19:17

i am looking for any tutorial type things on sending html through email...anybody know anything.

linear
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: other places
Insane since: Mar 2001

posted posted 05-15-2001 21:48

HTML is all 7-bit clean, no encoding necessary, other than the usual encoding of entities, &amp; and such.

It's text.

But what happens on the receiving end is out of anyone's control.

I hate HTML mail. Don't force people to look at markup. That's what people see when they use a mail reader that doesn't render HTML.

Why not just send a link to the page?

punchdrunk
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Calgary,Ab Canada
Insane since: May 2001

posted posted 05-16-2001 01:27

i cant do that because people would rather at least be able to see something first rather than just a plain old text link thats no fun....

mr.maX
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Belgrade, Serbia
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 05-16-2001 09:15

Punchdrunk, as I've said before, instead of writing HTML e-mails using some web-mail interface, why don't you use Outlook Express?

punchdrunk
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Calgary,Ab Canada
Insane since: May 2001

posted posted 05-16-2001 16:17

what does outlook do that others wont?
i am under some pressure here to get this done if your wondering why keep asking these questions...

punchdrunk
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Calgary,Ab Canada
Insane since: May 2001

posted posted 05-16-2001 18:02

what does outlook do that the others wont?????

linear
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: other places
Insane since: Mar 2001

posted posted 05-16-2001 18:17

Outlook Express (and some others) render your message as HTML by default.

But like I said, not everyone's mail reader can deal with rendering HTML.

Most mailers (and I believe Outlook Express) will deal with that by sending your message *twice* (two MIME attachments) and the reader transparently selects one. Users never see the "man behind the curtain"

Here's what I mean:
============================
From xxxx@xxxx.com Wed May 16 11:11:04 2001
Return-Path: <xxxx@xxxx.com>
Received: from mailhost.xxxx.com (mailhost.xxxx.com [10.1.10.26])
by calcium.xxxx.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4GGB3q83829
for <xxxx@calcium.xxxx.com>; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:11:03 -0500 (CDT)
(envelope-from xxxx@xxxx.com)
Received: from c250 (hydrogen.xxxx.com [10.1.2.50])
by mailhost.xxxx.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with SMTP id LAA13345
for <xxxx@xxxx>; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:12:56 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <001001c0de23$07cbeb00$3202010a@waddell.com>
From: "xxxx@mailhost" <xxxx@xxxx.com>
To: <xxxx@calcium.xxxx.com>
Subject: Hello world
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:12:39 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000D_01C0DDF9.1EC38860"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C0DDF9.1EC38860
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello world.

------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C0DDF9.1EC38860
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hello world.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C0DDF9.1EC38860--



mr.maX
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Belgrade, Serbia
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 05-16-2001 18:31

Punchdrunk, this screenshot will answer your question how to send HTML e-mails with Outlook Express: http://www.max.co.yu/ozone/oe.gif

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