Website Emails

[joshcxa]

How do I create those html emails.
You know the ones that look like a website in your inbox.

[benbramz]

its generated from a server side script. a good example of this is asp cdonts....(http://www.nt-webspace.com/asp%20tut...ail-cdonts.asp)

all depends on your platform though..

[herkalees]

Originally Posted by joshcxa

How do I create those html emails.
You know the ones that look like a website in your inbox.

This link provides some good information: http://www.isitebuild.com/html-email.htm

I'm currently diving into it myself for a small newsletter I'm doing on my site. I've run into an issue though, I've only been able to get the html to display properly on the receiving end if the person views their email with a program like Outlook or Thunderbird.

I've sent my HTML emails to yahoo!, gmail and MSN accounts and when viewed in their respective online web access interfaces, the html is rendered all wrong, and usually removed.

I'll let you know if I figure out how to make the HTML display well in web-based interfaces like yahoo!, gmail, etc...

[benbramz]

well the link to the script is the way ive used it and found no problems with msn or gmail.

however its asp cdonts. depends on whether your using asp

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 <%

    Dim myMail
    Dim HTML
    Set myMail = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")

    HTML = "just type the html"
    HTML = HTML & "and it can be on other lines"
    HTML = HTML & "like this"
   

    myMail.From="someone@microsoft.com"
    myMail.To="********@msn.com"
    myMail.Subject="Sample CDONTS HTML Message"
    myMail.BodyFormat=0
    myMail.MailFormat=0
    myMail.Body=HTML
    myMail.Send
    set mymail=nothing
    Response.Write "Message Sent!"
    %>