[foamy]

Okay, it's really easy to compose an email as HTML in entourage, but how in the hell do you take an existing html file and send it's source as an email?

We want to do one of those really annoying newsletters that come into your inbox as a webpage, but I can't figure out for the life of me how to do it.

Any suggestions? Mail.app doesn't send HTML, only plaintext and RTF.

TIA

[Ron Goodman]

If you know people consider these newsletters to be really annoying, why are you trying to send them out?

[foamy]

The owner of the business wants to send out a newsletter which looks like a webpage... simple as that. That said, the frequency of the newsletter in question is about 1 newsletter every month or so.... the ones I find annoying are the ones I get every single day.

[MattCe]

Originally posted by foamy:
<STRONG>Okay, it's really easy to compose an email as HTML in entourage, but how in the hell do you take an existing html file and send it's source as an email?

We want to do one of those really annoying newsletters that come into your inbox as a webpage, but I can't figure out for the life of me how to do it.

Any suggestions? Mail.app doesn't send HTML, only plaintext and RTF.

TIA</STRONG>

Go to AppleScript Central and search for "Complex HTML". There you will find what you need.

Annoy away...

Matt

[foamy]

Thanks for pointing out the applescript.

I found that Mozilla mail allows you to insert HTML source into an outgoing email very easily, so I'll be using Mozmail to annoy

[dtc]

Entourage X allows you to insert pictures/movies directly. That's a step in the right direction I suppose.

Originally posted by foamy:
<STRONG>Thanks for pointing out the applescript.

I found that Mozilla mail allows you to insert HTML source into an outgoing email very easily, so I'll be using Mozmail to annoy </STRONG>

[Mediaman_12]

So M$ has chosen to continue the cripiling of the PRO Mac mail reader by not including functions of the Free (with OS) Windows mail client. I was hoping this feature would have been added to the X version. can anyone tellme the point of being able to 'View Source' if you can't do anything with it. Gah!

[mfessenden]

It stinks....Outlook for Windows has a lot more options for formatting email, including the ability to use HTML files as templates for signatures. Don't get me wrong; I'm thrilled that Entourage now runs under OSX, but just giving the program a visual makeover with few feature changes is kind of a lazy upgrade.

-M

[dtc]

I think Carbonizing Office took more than the 2 weeks that Steve Jobs likes to say.

Originally posted by mfessenden:
<STRONG>It stinks....Outlook for Windows has a lot more options for formatting email, including the ability to use HTML files as templates for signatures. Don't get me wrong; I'm thrilled that Entourage now runs under OSX, but just giving the program a visual makeover with few feature changes is kind of a lazy upgrade.

-M </STRONG>

[masskinner]

Originally posted by foamy:
<STRONG>The owner of the business wants to send out a newsletter which looks like a webpage... simple as that. That said, the frequency of the newsletter in question is about 1 newsletter every month or so.... the ones I find annoying are the ones I get every single day.</STRONG>

Well consider this: If thirty businesses only send you their spam once a month, but they all do it on different days of the month, then you will end up with spam every single day--this despite the "good intentions" of said businesses.

So your little distinction between once-a-day-spamming and once-a-month-spamming isn't very compelling.