technology help please!

[iiiiiiiiiiiiii]

how the heck do you create html mail? i am making the email mailers that i wrote about earlier, and i found these instructions about how to make html mail (http://www.isitebuild.com/html-email.htm) but it still doesn't work. i pasted all my code into the body of an email

Comments

[cxc]

It could be that whatever mail program you're using is not set up to do HTML. Are you using webmail, or a program like Outlook Express? Check in the Options, Settings, or Preferences and see what it says about composing HTML email. The setting may be grouped with your Outgoing (SMTP) Mail Server setting.

[iiiiiiiiiiiiii]

there's nothing in preferences about html mail, and i used the help feature (i'm just using the OSX mail program) and the only thing about html was in regards to recieving html mail. argh! i can't figure it out. stupid technology. ;)

[haradasound]

but what do you have your Apple Mail prefs set to? it could be it's sending out just fine but Mail isn't reading it properly...
If you found the preference, that's good, because I could tell you where it is, but I've set my computer to speak German... (under Preferences it's under the "Verfassen" tab, and then there's the "Format der E-mail" in "Reiner Text" oder "Formatierte Text." So long as you have "Formatierte Text" checked off, it should work). You could try sending it to me, too, but I'm going to bed soon-

Thunderbird

[joshbousel]

I don't think apple's mail program is designed to easily send html emails like that. Try using Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/). I found it really easy to do using this program. Once you're creating a new message in thunderbird, just go to Insert > HTML and paste your html in. For the images you can either write the paths to images located on your server, or encode them as attachments to the email. I personally prefer having the images hosted on a server, since attachments greatly increase the size of the email, which sometimes might trigger certtain spam filters.

Re: Thunderbird

[iiiiiiiiiiiiii]

thanks! i tried that, and it works, however even though i put paths to images on my server, it is still including them as attachements, which i don't want. do you know how to fix that?

thanks again!!!

Re: Thunderbird

[joshbousel]

Oh, I didn't realize it automatically attached the files. Try this:

Double click on the image when you're composing the message and a dialog should pop-up.
Then click on "Advanced edit..."
In the "Attribute:" field at the bottom, enter: "moz-do-not-send"
And in the "Value:" field enter: "true"

Repeat that for all the images
hopefully it works!

Re: Thunderbird

[iiiiiiiiiiiiii]

thanks!!! that totally did the trick!!!