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PeterSteen
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I have several reasons for sending HTML email; (1) because of the links (2) a lot of people subscribe to HTML newsletters but cannot read HTML , (3) people who use webmail ask me to send it in HTML but they cannot read my newsletter, while they receive other newsletters in HTML which has the right lay-out.

Thank you Unipus for your suggestion. I hope I will solve the problem with this suggestion.

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Hello. Perhabs someone can help me with an email problem. I have sent one (HTML code) email to 2 different adresses. One email I open in my Outlook and the other email I open in a webmail program. My Outlook give me the right layout and when I look to the second email through webmail I only see the HTML code.

But when I forward my email from Outlook to my webmail adress I will see the right layout in my webmail.

Perhabs someone has the code for sending HTML mails which has the right layout and can be read if they will opened by a webmail programm.
The mails will be sent by a Postoffice program, an mailprogram which send newsletters to subscribers.

Sorry for my English, English in not my mother language.
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m3rajk
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Post by m3rajk »

google for mime types

the issue is not having the right mime type


fyi: html takes up more room than plain text, and many people have it turned off since vbscript and other scritps can run. unless you MUST send a link, i cannot think of ANY good reason to use html
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Post by qads »

you can always give users a choice, ask them if they would like plain text email or html email :)
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Post by Unipus »

Or you could be the life of the party and send Multipart MIME emails!

http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/send ... lpart2.php will tell you how!
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Post by m3rajk »

like i said, most people disable it becasue a bunch of viruses and worms and trojans exploit scripting so that once you view the e-mail you're infected.


examples of that include melissa and iloveyou

and there's a new chernobyl variant that does as well... last i heard only mcafee and norton got that one, pc-cillin (which seems to be increasing in popularity even though it's <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>), panda, and the rest miss it. i think it's not a pure variant but just something made to do the same damage. not quite sure, was told about it by a friend who had some comps where he works die.. they lucked out, nearly all work was done off an unaffected central server and they caught it really fast
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