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mark4256
Starting Member
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 Posted - 13 October 2005 : 07:04:56
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| Does anyone know if it is poosible to send an HTML email through the forum |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 13 October 2005 : 07:11:56
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No, only plain text mails.
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
5768 Posts |
Posted - 13 October 2005 : 11:00:07
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| Simce a lot of people are now disabling HTML e-mails in their clients, I would stick with plain-text anyway to make sure that everybody gets what they are supposed to get. |
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Gort
New Member
84 Posts |
Posted - 04 January 2007 : 20:46:33
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| Any idea why my webmail client (SmarterMail Enterprise Edition 3.3.2369) sees forum subscription emails as html emails (thus showing quotes properly formatted, hr's, etc) when they are actually plain text emails??? |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 05 January 2007 : 04:08:07
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Unless you've modified your subscription e-mails they should not contain any HTML tags such as <hr /> (don't know what you mean by "showing quotes properly formatted").
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Gort
New Member
84 Posts |
Posted - 05 January 2007 : 21:42:47
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Sorry! I forgot my current setup isn't the default. My forum's subscription emails contain the post or reply.
So, in Outlook, the emails will simply have all the reply or post text with no formatting. Example:
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by McN</i> <br />etc etc <br /><br /><hr noshade size="1">etc<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">etc etc <br /><br /><hr noshade size="1">etc
In my webmail, the emails appear just like they do on the message board (with formatting). Did that clear it up? I can post screenshots if need be. |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 08 January 2007 : 04:10:49
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That's a bug in your webmail script not filtering out < and > in non-HTML e-mails. What e-mail component are you using on your forum?
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“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the
fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had
taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.” |
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Gort
New Member
84 Posts |
Posted - 11 January 2007 : 17:33:33
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| ASPEMail. |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 12 January 2007 : 04:02:20
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Please note that I do not recommend you take this approach as HTML mails sent through an automated script increase the chances of those mails ending up in the recipient's junk mail folder. However, if that's a risk you're willing to take, you can send HTML mails out through ASPEmail by finding the following on line 61 of inc_mail.asp and adding the line in green:
objNewMail.Subject = strSubject
objNewMail.Body = strMessage
objNewMail.IsHTML = true
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“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the
fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had
taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.” |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 12 January 2007 : 09:31:52
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Haha try explaining to a marketing department that 7-bit ASCII is superior - maybe get all the pack-shots converted to asciiart  |
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
5768 Posts |
Posted - 13 January 2007 : 10:20:22
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| Actually, now that MS replaced the HTML rendering engine in Outlook (Outlook 2007 now uses the Word HTML rendering engine, not IE like it did in the past) the limitations in what will most likely be a fairly widely distributed e-mail client make me glad that I never left plain text. This is a new consideration in addition to my earlier comment about those who just turn off HTML e-mail support. |
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Gort
New Member
84 Posts |
Posted - 12 February 2007 : 07:54:32
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| Thanks Shaggy. I'll take your advice into consideration. Mostly, its for my own benefit since I one of the few that gets email notifications. |
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