I've seen all these emails that include pictures, divs, paragraphs and what-not inside an email.
How do I actually go about doing that?
Can anyone give me a rough explanation on how these things work? I am pasting my HTML code inside my email and it only shows text. Is there anything I should enable/disable?
(I know I will need a mailing list, but that's probably a different topic.)
The body of the message should be formatted as Multipart MIME (with the email header stating that it is formatted that way) with at least two parts: A text/html part and a text/plain part (for email clients that don't support HTML and to reduce the number of This Is A Spammer flags given the email).
Most graphical email clients will only allow HTML to be entered using their WYSIWYG tools. Custom HTML requires specialist software.
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For me this could just be a bit of nuance paranoia but is there any difference between how HTML Emails and HTML Email Signatures are created and/or rendered? Specifically, after doing some research I keep seeing HTML Email results coming up when I ask for HTML Email Signatures. Some search results do include signature.
From the research I've compiled I've seen that it's best to create HTML Email Signatures with the legacy layout method using the <table> element (Mainly to support Outlook), then I see it mentioned and used a lot less often that you can also use <div> for more flexibility with other email clients for both mobile and desktop and then also the use of "Ghost Tables" in combination with <div> to add support for Outlook and get the flexibility for other email clients.
For just HTML Emails the use of <div> is mentioned often and encouraged for flexibility across different email clients for desktop and mobile and <table> element is also mentioned often as a legacy way of laying out HTML Emails along with the use of "Ghost Tables" and <div>.
So I guess another way to ask this question is. Can the same code convention for HTML Emails (Use of <div> and <table>) be used to make HTML Email Signatures? Is there any code difference or can the same code be used for both?
When sending HTML emails, you send email X, and Outlook renders X one way, and Gmail renders X a different way. Outlook renders it according to it's largely print-based rendering engine (MS Word), and Gmail renders the same nice HTML according to it's largely web-based rendering engine. So everyone is happy, because Gmail doesn't care how much Outlook botched it. The render happens after sending.
But when setting up HTML email signatures, and if we use Outlook, the signature gets rendered according to Outlook's rendering engine before sending. Thus, you cannot send a responsive signature from Outlook (I'm pretty sure).
However, Gmail's tool to insert signatures is also relatively poor quality, and doesn't support <style> blocks, for example. Therefore it can be hard (but not impossible) to produce something responsive.
It ultimately depends on the quality of the editor used, as well as what the program subsequently does to it to 'clean' your code, as to what works (so, there is no exact answer for this question, sorry--may be why you've been downvoted). Usually, sending from a proper ESP is a lot smoother.
I've noticed that when you forward an html email from Gmail (not sure about other providers), the html structure changes in the process. The forwarded html loses all the ids declared inside the original html, also some other 'cleaning' happens on the html too.
Can anybody explain why this happens or if it's possible to avoid? Or is it totally dependent on the smtp provider?
I have an app that monitors emails on a specific inbox and tries to parses it, but as I said when the user forwards his email to this inbox (from gmail), the email html structure gets cleaned and my code can no longer parse the html because a lot of the ids are gone.
Due to this, I have to find a new way to parse what I require from the email, like using regular expressions on the plaintext section of the MIME message.
I've searched about this matter and I couldn't find any single piece of information.
Gmail strips head tag and Ids and classes on pre-processor. That means when you forward or reply, to gmail, these items never existed so are not included on reply.
As Gmail removes head tag, id, classes and more, the best way is to use inline CSS style.
Tip: An inline style loses many of the advantages of a style sheet (by mixing content with presentation). Use this method sparingly.
I have a quick question I have an HTML Signature for may emails. I need to implement them into my exchange server`s transport rules.
Unfortunately the limit is at 4096 characters and my HTML signature is 8950 Characters.
I would like to know if there is an HTML code that will access a public URL and then gets the necessary HTML content from the public URL, so that I can circumvent the limitation.
Thanks for your help
It should be normal HTML stuff i guess, Office 365 Microsoft is what I am using.
I have my company logo comming from the server, does this mean Gmail user will not be able to see my logo? I am bringing it in via a URL
every time I try to place the HTML code it shows the actual signature, any idea how i can change that?
regards
Its difficult to code for HTML emails as different email clients deal with html emails in different ways.
You could
1. Reduce spacing used in html tags, inline styling.
2. Modify markup so as to use lesser tags
Best would be to reduce the signature content, remove unnecessary parts.
In case you cant do, so you could use a image of your signature & link a image tag.[NOT RECOMMENDED] This wont work in gmail since it blocks image loading by default.
Maybe posting your signature might help?
I want to send an email with special characters (like cyrillic) from a swf. To make sure it will be displayed correctly in the mail client, I use
encodeURI()
It works fine in Apple Mail, but in Outlook I only see gibberish. I learned that Outlook uses iso-8859-1 for "mailto:"-mails (at least by default). So two questions arise:
is there a way to encode the mailto: string in iso-8859-1?
would this break the correct display of characters in other mail clients?
I am sure that the second question can not have a definitive answer, nevertheless I would be thankful for any advise.
EDIT: unfortunately, html email and php is not an option for me.
You are using the wrong tech my friend. Just post your email data to some php script and use php to send a html email.
Is there some sort of formatting protocol for html email? We have an automated system that sends reports via email, when I look at the source I see them delimited by line length with an "=" breaking the line. That is, I get something like :
<html><body>some text some text some text some=
some text some text some text some text som<ta=
ble>some text some text some text some text <t=
r><td...
Does anyone have any more information on what this is?
You have to send the message as multi-part MIME. Best practices are:
Always send an HTML and a pure text version this way for mail clients that don't support HTML or some people just turn off HTML in emails (there are security/spam isssues with images although a lot of clients won't auto-download images from non-trusted sites anyway);
Images can be included in the message instead of as straight links. Straight links save on bandwidth but are a spam or even security issue (eg Internet Explorer had a buffer overrun bug with PNG images). Embedded images are references with cid values; and
Only use the most basic HTML. Browser HTML support varies from the primitive to the bizarre. When I looked into doing this we just couldn't get a consistent (or even acceptably different) look and feel on the handful of mail clients we investigated leading us to send our reports as attached PDFs, which are, in a lot of ways, preferable (they can easily be saved, for one).
As to your garbled message, it looks to me that your message isn't being correctly identified as HTML so the mail client is wrapping lines of text at 70 or so characters.
Your message is being translated somehow to "quoted printable" encoding. This is probably an issue with the mail headers you're creating.
Looks like it could be quoted-printable.
How do equals symbols in the HTML look, are they replaced by =3E?
Technically there's nothing wrong with this, but it would be nice to include an alternate plain text,
for those people who can't or don't want to read HTML mail (like me).
The email RFC enforces line length limits, specifically each line should be no longer than 78 characters, excluding CRLF. The equal symbols at the end of each line is just a line delimiter, which will be correctly parsed by any email reader that supports HTML, as long as the necessary headers are in place (Content-Text: text/html). More details on HTML in email conventions can be found here.