Sending HTML coded e-mail

**kid A** · 02-21-2002, 05:25 PM

What's the best utility for this? I've made all the code, but using Outlook Express I can't get it to format the code. It just displays the raw code once sent and recieved by the recipient(s).

Any advice here?

**Tekime** · 02-21-2002, 08:56 PM

In OE 6.0 (and I'm pretty sure previous ver's), when you are creating a new email, under the views menu you can check off source edit. This gives you 3 views: edit, source and preview. You can put all your HTML in the source window.

I'm pretty sure you need your doctype declarations and content-type declarations so the the receiving client knows to format it as an html doc. OE 6.0 automatically sticks this in the top of bare code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
...

**kid A** · 02-22-2002, 08:13 AM

Ah, thank you! How very handy. Can't believe I didn't notice that before. Just think of the wonderful e-mails I'll be sending out now!

**rock** · 02-22-2002, 11:34 AM

Originally posted by kid A
Just think of the wonderful e-mails I'll be sending out now!

And of all the poor Unix mail/pine users you'll be upsetting! Sorry, but I believe HTML is for Web pages, text is for email. But I have noticed that I'm become more and more the minority as the years go by.

**kid A** · 02-22-2002, 12:06 PM

Originally posted by rock

And of all the poor Unix mail/pine users you'll be upsetting! Sorry, but I believe HTML is for Web pages, text is for email. But I have noticed that I'm become more and more the minority as the years go by.

You must realise that any intelligent being also includes a text-only version of the e-mail in order to suit the (hordes) of people that still refuse to go HTML email. Too conservative IMO. I certainly do my best to please all potential viewers

**wavephorm** · 02-22-2002, 12:14 PM

Originally posted by rock
And of all the poor Unix mail/pine users you'll be upsetting! Sorry, but I believe HTML is for Web pages, text is for email. But I have noticed that I'm become more and more the minority as the years go by.

I use mutt for my regular email, abandoned Eudora and Outlook ages ago. Have you ever tried to manage reading a POP email account from 2 different locations? It's a complete pain in the ___. All I need to do is install a telnet/ssh client to read my email from anywhere, and that's how I read my email at home also. And when someone sends me an html email I politely respond by asking them to fix their email clients if they want me to read what they said

**rock** · 02-22-2002, 02:09 PM

Originally posted by wavephorm
And when someone sends me an html email I politely respond by asking them to fix their email clients if they want me to read what they said

I used to do this too on a regular basis. I've just given up now and tend to delete html emails unless it's from someone I know. (Sorry ebay, you bastards.)

**Tekime** · 02-22-2002, 03:53 PM

Originally posted by kid A
Ah, thank you! How very handy. Can't believe I didn't notice that before. Just think of the wonderful e-mails I'll be sending out now!

No prob. Like rock says though, HTML is for web pages. It's all fine and dandy if you know the person but MAN it gets bloated at times, and some peeps just might not understand

**kid A** · 02-22-2002, 08:57 PM

Like I said, you have to start it off with a non-html part, and tell the viewer to ignore the html code after that.

**Diz** · 02-27-2002, 02:48 PM

I made a mailing list in perl that sends out html mail but some people don't have the capability in their e-mail client program to read html so I do both a text and html version to assure that everyone is getting what I am sending.

**krack_it_up** · 02-27-2002, 04:17 PM

haha, that's funny. not using html in email IMO is like not using the GUI for an OS and only using command prompt. Sure it is bulkier, and it is different, but hey, it looks better, is more integrated with the web and makes communicating easier.

**e_dawg** · 02-28-2002, 10:23 AM

Bah, HTML email is for wusses!

**m316foley** · 02-28-2002, 08:53 PM

Originally posted by Diz
I made a mailing list in perl that sends out html mail but some people don't have the capability in their e-mail client program to read html so I do both a text and html version to assure that everyone is getting what I am sending.

yep...text only here. I hate looking at html emails...if I wanted to look at something fancy, I would make a cool picture in photoshop

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