I currently have a linked table in access that points to a folder in outlook. I want to be able to manipulate these emails inside of access. I'm able to do this, but the only problem is the formatting of the email body field (called contents in the linked outlook table) is lost. I have the text box set as rich text, but everything is converted to plain text. Is there any workaround here to keep the original formatting including tables that is seen in the email? I used the wizard in access to link the outlook folder.
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I am trying to generate email signatures for my entire company so I am using a script to fill in an HTML template with each individual's information and generating an HTML file that I would like to use for the signature. The generation of the HTML works fine and I can load the HTML into chrome and it displays 100% correctly.
I would prefer to not have to host these images somewhere at the moment and would like them to be embedded in the e-mail. We can achieve this by using outlook on each individuals machine to create the signature by hand, but again we want to avoid that. Ideally, we will generate these templates and then automatically put these files on each employee's computer so all we have to do is select the signature from outlook.
The problem we are having is that when we do this, the image does not load. It seems that outlook won't allow base64 encoded images? I've tried to work around this by trying to attach the image to the email and then referencing it, but this doesn't seem to work either. I used this template. I got the boundary from a test email I sent myself, but I don't even know if this is a good way to go about this either.
In short, is there a way to create an .htm file for outlook signatures that includes the image inside the .htm file?
External image file that will be added as an attachment is the only way - Word (which renders HTML messages in Outlook) does not support base64 embedded images.
Try to create a new signature with an image in Outlook and see how they reference the images.
I am attempting to create an HTML newsletter to send out. I have created the newsletter in Microsoft Publisher and exported it to HTML. I then open the HTML file and select all and paste it into a Gmail draft. In the preview, the newsletter looks great but when I send it to myself and receive it, Gmail completely breaks the formatting and pushes all the text below the image. When I tested this with my AOL email, the formatting was fine and the text was on top of the image where its supposed to be. I even tried using Mailchimp to code the newsletter and it also appeared to be fine but when I sent it to all my emails, Gmail was the only one that broke the format. The email looks perfect on AOL and even on my iPhone Mail App which is connected to my Gmail. What am I doing wrong?
It looks to me like the columns are being lined up wrong, but from the code you have sent this is probably the least of your worries. Creating a html email in Microsoft Publisher is a bad idea. You might be better using something like mailchimp's free builder and copying the html out of that (or even just sending from there)
I need to be able to send an image in the signature line through HTML files.
However, it can not come from a webserver because the receiver of the mail will have a delay while downloading the image from the net.
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I see you're using Microsoft Outlook from your tags, so I suggest to do the following:
Create the signature in Microsoft Word. Then save as:
HTML page - html
Rich Text Document - rtf
Plain Text Document - txt
Then you will have three files and a folder. Copy all that into your signature folder - found at
[disk letter]/Users/[username]/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Signatures/
They will now appear in Outlook, and the images should attach - but the receiver wont see them as attachments.
I'm developing a function (C#, ASP.NET 4) which creates and downloads a .ics file.
I'm trying to figure out what restrictions there are on the html within the X-ALT-DESC property. For example, if I send this:
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><body><ul><li style="font-weight:bold">#1</li><li>#2</li></ul><table border=1><tr><td>table test</td></tr></table><span style="font-weight:bold">Site Visit Agenda</span><br/><span>8:00 AM</span><br/><span>Check in with management<br/>Facility Inspection<br/>Training and Meeting Setup</span></tr></table></body><html>
When I open the downloaded file, it opens in Outlook 2010, so that seems o.k. While the list stuff renders as I'd expect, the table border doesn't show, nor do either of the font-weight settings get rendered. (On the plus side, the html tags aren't rendered as text, it just doesn't format the alt desc like you'd see in a browser with the same HTML).
Of course, we're trying to figure out what HTML we can and cannot use to format the information we want to show up in the alt description.
Searching around, I can't find anything which talks about what's allowed and what isn't.
Thanks to anyone who has a pointer.
I have created my HTML email in an index.html file and linked all the images to an FTP site.
I am not using MailChimp etc, I want to know how to send this email directly from Outlook 2010 itself?
How can I send this email out to lots of people (all using Outlook) and for them to be able to view the HTML within the email itself and not opening an attachment.
I basically want the code I have done in the body of the email within Outlook?
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Its been a while since Ive done this myself but if you create a new mail message and then choose Insert, then File and finally select your coded HTML file. In the lower right corner of the Insert dialog click on the arrow next to the insert button and select Insert as Text.
The other option would be to import the HTML file itself as stationery. Here is Microsoft's walkthrough of that process:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/create-stationery-for-email-messages-HA102561327.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA010355037