[thelist] HTML email (again!!)

Pete Prodoehl pete.prodoehl at cygnusinteractive.com
Fri Sep 19 15:08:48 CDT 2003


Make sure the email is sent using the proper mime type, meaning 
text/html and not text/plain.

You might also investigate multipart/mixed if you want to send text and 
html in one msg.

As for using CSS in HTML Email, here's a useful link:

   http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StyleInEmail


Pete


Gregory Wostrel wrote:
> OK, I know that we just had a post about HTML email that I eagerly read, 
> thinking "what timing!).
> 
> But here is my problem: I understand the pros and cons, heard the 
> arguments, but my client wants to send them to people who have agreed to 
> receive them - I have not a clue how to actually send them! I remember 
> someone telling me once that I could send them with Netscape or Outlook 
> and so on. But I want to build the page in BBEdit (or the like) and then 
> send it. So I need an answer, please, about this most basic part. I have 
> searched on Google, looked on Evolt, alistapart, webmonkey, no 
> specifics, lots of "tips".
> 
> Can you help?




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