HTML emails
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- leftwave
OK...
i've taken the great advice of some previous postings here and i've been able to send an HTML page in an email by creating a webpage in dreamweaver with absolute image links, uploading it to my server, opening it in explorer and going to file>send>page by email.i receive the email in outlook and it's perfect. however, when i send it to my hotmail/yahoo account, the images come up as attachments. they display okay, but i don't want them to show up as attachments also.
so, the question is: does anyone know how to make a self-contained HTML email message with embedded images that i can send out to my peeps?
- leftwave0
i know someone out there knows this.....
- blackspade0
sounds like your doing everything correctly to me
do a search for complex html emails
your sure they are all absolute URLs to images/styles etc ?
- a-train0
hmmmm... very interesting question... I dont think you can because when you send it through those big companies, they convert them to attachemts to check for viruses and other things...
look at #6 on the link
http://www.vexen.co.uk/notes/htm…
- leftwave0
a-train, that's what i thought also, but then i forwarded this html mail that i received from some hotel to my yahoo account (from outlook)and it showed up in yahoo perfectly with all of the images intact without showing the images as attachments too.
this is so bizarre and it's driving me crazy. is the solution that i have to use some crappy 3rd party program to send these html messages so the images don't show up as attachments? i can't believe that this is the solution!
- leftwave0
blackspade, thanks for checking... yes, all my links are absolute URLs
- nuggler0
I believe the answer involves setting the headers with Unix. Aside from that, try mail chimp: http://mailchimp.com/
- leftwave0
mailchimp will certainly solve the problem, but i'm convinced there's a way that my cheap self can do this without paying 1 or 2 cents per message that i send.
there's got to be someone out there who can help me send an html email without the image attachments showing up in hotmail/yahoo - anyone...? anyone...?
- spmitch0
check this out similar to the mokey thing(above posts) but php and free
will probably take a little work to setup and tweak the way you want it
- blackspade0
lemme check if ours works in hotmail /yahoo
- blackspade0
yea mine works fine in yahoo,
secret might be here.... ?
http://www.alistapart.com/articl…"Problem:
Hotmail: the biggest demon of them all. It has no mercy for HTML emails utilizing CSS. It not only eradicated my styles, but also all of the following tags from my email: , , , and . Kiss aesthetic design goodbye.Solution:
I recommend carefully considering how far you want to go to accommodate Hotmail’s ineptitude, because the following method adds the tag to “dedication” and “diligence.” Since the tag and everything preceding it are gone, the only remaining method for applying CSS is Inline. Inline styles are inefficient and tedious, and I’m sure you’d “rather be golfing,” but it works. If you expect heavy Hotmail use by your intended audience, you can use this method to help ensure success. But if Hotmail is not an issue for you, you can skip this step and instead take care of the important things in your life, like eating and sleeping."
- leftwave0
thanks for the great info you guys.
the thing is, i'm not trying to do anything complicated at all. no CSS, no tables, nothing fancy!
all i want to do is have some text and an image that i can send to a hotmail or yahoo account without the image showing up as an ATTACHMENT
- jevad0
why is it such a problem that they show up as attachments?
- leftwave0
jevad,
it's no big deal for 1 or 2 images to show up as an attachment. but i've built something with some slices and so then the person has to see all of these slices and images and crap attached at the end of their message.i receive advertisement emails all the time in my yahoo/hotmail accounts and they have images and slices, BUT they don't show up as attachments and i can't figure out how to do the same.
AHH
- rename0
I had the same problem too.
If your email does not have a complex layout. Try this:
With Outlook: Format>Rich Text
Select the insert image ( the last icon on the right). Select an image.
Make your own layout also with the other tool. Send it to Yahoo or Hotmail and check. The image is not displayed as an attachement and the formatting is the same.Email me if you need more
- leftwave0
rename,
you're a genius! that works great!now, for the next obvious question...
how do i do this on a more complex email? layout
- blackspade0
get safari! ;)
i make a Complex HTML/CSS page with absolute urls etc
open in Safari > File> Mail Contents of this Page.
works perfekt in yahoo & hotmail ;)
- leftwave0
uhh, can i use safari on my PC?
i tried this similar feature in explorer (file>send>page by email) and it works great except that when the email goes to hotmailers or yahooers, all of the images also show up as attachments.
is there a feature in firefox that can do this?
- lyrek0
Try checking the charset when you send it. For optimal use, it should be set-up as iso-8859-1. Otherwise, the webmail clients may think that it's a plain text mail and automatically attach embedded images.
Sometimes (mail.com, email.com) you can't override how it views, as they all sometimes come through as plain text.
I hope this helps.
- bk_shankz0
I had the same problem and wrote a php script to send it and that worked.
- ********0
Whoever is still using hotmail should be shot in the face...