HTML e-mail
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- ukit
What's the best way to test an HTML e-mail, i.e. send it to yourself, along with images etc?
- d_rek0
depends
spam it to a personal account, try it in web-based email apps, etc ... just spam really.
- designbot0
Send it to a test group. whatever email application you are using you will be able to setup a test list of addresses.
- ********0
Just test in terms of making sure the email itself works? Just email it yourself.
Best host the images on a server somewhere, rather than as attachments.
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- redant0
when i said MS word i guess i was thinking if u want to make sure the html works in outlook you could the html in MS Word. Outlook does not accept all CSS. e.g., background images
- d_rek0
redant,
As far as I know most email clients to not handle CSS at all... just basic html formatting (ie: font styles, tables, etc) Although some handle a div tag you cannot apply classes or css styles to them. If someone knows otherwise I would love to hear from them.
- a lot are compliant nowadays however, certain common clients ie: Outlook 2007 and gmail don't7point34
- which is fucking stupid7point34
- yes, i am killing myself with an emailer my boss wanted done last week which would be so easily done with cssd_rek
- except their primary email app (MS entourage) is garbage and the web-app they have is only marginally betterd_rek
- 7point340
gmail is a bitch... good luck
- acescence0
i usually put everything up on a server with inline css and absolute paths to images. then visit with Safari and select file > mail contents of page, or in IE select file > send > page by email, or in firefox you need an add-on to email page contents. i have test accounts on aol, yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc. and i send to myself.
also, this is helpful:
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/c…
- ukit0
Thanks guys!
- ********0
Hey d_rek we've applied CSS to emails many times but the styles have to be included in the email at the top of the page.
Like acescence says, direct URLs to all images and links.Have you considered using mail-list software? phpList is decent and highly customisable. We've set it up for clients many times and included templates for them to use. Getting tinyMCE or FCKeditor (or whatever it's called) can be tricky depending on your server set-up. http://www.phplist.com/
- Right embedded CSS in the email, i've tried it before but haven't had any luck outside of using it for personal reasons... will give it another shot thod_rek