I have read about the problems with Lotus notes not rendering styles and some other things properly, but my problem hasn't gotten that far. My end goal is to send an email through the mule ESB and have the email render as html. In trying to get this to work, I simply want to send a simple markup in the body and have it render. Once i can figure this out, I can try to build on it to get everything else correct.
My simple email message I would like to send is
<html>
<head>
<title>TestingStuff</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello!
</body>
</html>
And I would like to receive the email which just says Hello! When I receive the email, it is exactly as typed, it does not get rendered as html. Do I need to do anything else to specify that this should be rendered as HTML opposed to plain text?
You can't just enter HTML into the Notes client and expect it to work. And even if you tell Lotus Notes that you're entering HTML, you can't expect the message it creates to be exactly like one that you're going to create in code. You can't really even expect it to be close.
If you want to send a test email message into a Notes user and retain complete control over the contents of the message, so that it will be processed exactly the way a message that you would from code will be, then I suggest that you learn how to use telnet to send a message to an SMTP server, and learn about the structure of MIME messages from a good general tutorial, or from a tutorial that deals specifically with email messages with text/html content.
In Notes 9 you can use "File" -> "Import" and then select your HTML file.
I don't know if that's possible in Notes 8.5 too.
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We require the users to reply in a specific format about their problems. Our current application sends an auto-generated mail which has a mailto embedded like this
Contact Application Team
What we want now is to include a table in the embedded "mailto" so that user can describe their problems in much better way. We have tried encoding html inside mailto body, but it gets treated as simple text.
Is there any way to include the table in the mailto body or any better way to improve the interaction.
It is not possible to include HTML in the mailto body, as defined in Section 2 of RFC 2368.
Possible alternate solutions:
Have users type their information into an HTML form and then use PHP (or similar server side language) to send the email
Try to format your email a little bit nicer by adding in some line breaks. You can use %0D (Carriage Return) followed by %0A (Line Feed). Maybe something like this:
Contact Application Team
I use velocity to create a string writer, then merge that into a template. The template #includes html to make a simple table, yet only the raw HTML shows up in the email... it does not get rendered. Email is being sent from Google server to outlook client.
Can anyone tell me How can I get rendered HTML into an email message created with Velocity?
Thanks!
You have to set a Content-type: text/html header.
Appart from that, you have to be aware that all the different email clients may strip the HTML tags and features (for example, styles), so you have to experiment with different email clients and try to stick to a very basic feature set.
I'm trying to use an html email signature that pulls the html from another site. So, imagine I have the html hosted at blahblah.com/blah.html, and blah.html is:
<html>
<body>
Jon Jones
jon#blahblah.com
</body>
</html
And then my html signature would be something like <embed src="blahblah.com/blah.html/> that way I can manipulate the signature without having to constantly change the actual signature in Outlook (which I use to check my email).
I can't figure out any html that will do what I'm trying to do. The embed tag that I posted above doesn't do the trick. What simple line of html can I use to say "display what you find at blahblah.com/blah.html"
I would venture a guess and say this isn't the best way to do this.
From a security standpoint, I wouldn't want to be viewing any email sent by you that also brings in somesite.com/signature.htm. Even if it did, it would invoke a "click to view linked elements in this email" banner, and hide it until I did so (but chances are I'm not clicking).
From a recipient stand point, some spam filters block emails with externally-linked content (your intended recipient may not even get your email, or (best-case) see it with [spam] in the subject line.)
If you want an easy up-keep, you could place the signature in your my documents/some other folder and link to it via outlook's settings, but that about the least intense method (while also not causing concerns or issues to anyone viewing your email.)
It looks like instructions for what you want are here: http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/tips/html-email.html
Under "How to add HTML links in Outlook HTML emails," point to blahblah.com/blah.html
On the other hand, HTML in emails is generally not a great thing because it often isn't very secure (you could send me a page with HTML that would load a virus), so many clients won't be able to recieve it or will flag it as spam.
I am trying to write an HTML Code which on clicking on one of the links a mail is sent to respective mail Id.But along with that mail i also want to attach an attachment by default.Uptill now i am able to pouplate rest of the fields like to,cc,bcc,sub but the only thing remained is attachment.
Can anyone sort it out for me.Your help would be appreciated and thanks in advance.
I may be misunderstanding the question, but you're not going to be able to add an attachment to an email with HTML only. You're going to need some server side code.
Are you trying to use mailto: to do this?
Attachments are encoded in mail messages according to the MIME standard. All the major web scripting languages have modules to read and write MIME messages. Searching for "MIME" at CPAN for instance will turn up lots of useful Perl code.
I'm using C# to send email newsletters for subscribers.
There's no problem with sending the email but some email clients like outlook and hotmail receive html newsletter as an attachment and the email body contains only plaintext with html tags removed and some clients like gmail receive the email just fine.
What actually creates this behavior? If i put just few html tags in to message outlook and hotmail shows the newsletter fine but as i put in more html elements my mail arrives as attachment.
I've been trying to find out how to make my email appear ok in most popular email clients like outlook but have had no success so far. Anyone care to enlighten me how this email + html stuff actually works?
Have a look at the Mailchimp and CampaignMonitor links in this answer, which may help you.
Since you don't provide any information about how you're using C# to send this email, we can only speculate about what you're doing and what the problem might be. It sounds like you might be using MailMessage.AlternateViews to send your HTML, but only have that one view. If you're not intending to send out a multipart/alternative message then you should simply set the MailMessage.Body to your HTML content with MailMessage.IsBodyHtml = true.
That being said: I make the assumptions I do because some email clients are smarter than others, and if the content-type header doesn't make sense they'll do their best to try to figure out what the nicest way to display the content is, each potentially trying something different. If, however, my assumptions are incorrect it would greatly help to know the code you're using to generate the email, and even an example of the message headers.