| Who here hasn't tried to create and and
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| | Every email has a property known as:
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| send an HTML newsletter by email. It
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| | "Content-Type:" which identifies the type
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| sounds easy enough. Create an html page,
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| | of content that is included in that
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| copy the code, paste it in email and
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| | email. The emails that you, me, and
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| voila. Well it does, until you actually
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| | everyone usually send are mostly text.
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| try it.
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| | Plain Text to be exact. That's why when I
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| For a long time, I too tried to figure
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| | tried to copy and past the html source
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| out how to send an html email newsletter.
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| | code in the past it had just shown up as
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| I tried just about every way to send it.
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| | HTML.
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| One of the ways was to save the html page
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| | When I saw the content type for the text
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| and then attach it as an html file with
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| | emails it was:
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| the email. I tried just copying the
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| | Content-Type: text/plain;
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| source code of the html file and send
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| | When I saw the content type for the html
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| that in. I even tried saving the webpage
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| | emails which displayed very nicely, it
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| as an email file and that didn't work
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| | was:
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| either. After trying a few more ideas I
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| | Content-Type; text/html;
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| decided it's best to just use plain text
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| | WOW. I mean I couldn't belive it that
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| until I can figure out how to send it
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| | after all this time it was that one small
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| correctly.
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| | line that had stopped me and probably
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| As luck would have it though I did find
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| | countless others from successfully
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| out how to finally send an HTML
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| | sending html emails.
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| newsletter by email. I was working on an
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| | But how would you tag your email as html?
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| email comments form with ColdFusion, a
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| | It depends on how you're sending it.
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| web programming language, one of features
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| | If you plan on sending your html email
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| included sending data in HTML format. I
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| | newsletter with a web programming
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| thought why not try it, it might just
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| | language, such as Cold Fusion then you
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| work. So I copied the code of an html
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| | can use cfmail's type="HTML" feature,
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| webpage and then emailed it to myself,
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| | which will automatically set the
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| and voila.
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| | Content-Type to text/html and display the
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| But had I really figured it out though?
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| | email as an HTML Newsletter.
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| There had to be something else in the
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| | If you plan on sending it with ASP.NET,
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| code which ColdFusion added that allowed
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| | then the below line should clear it up:
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| the newsletter to display correctly. I
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| | YourMessageName.BodyFormat =
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| looked at the html code for the email and
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| | MailFormat.Html
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| there was nothing different about this
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| | Or if you plan on using PHP then it
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| email. It was the same code as all the
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| | should look something like this
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| other html newsletters that I had tried
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| | "To: The Receivers Name \n" .
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| and tested in the past. Except that this
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| | "From: The Senders Name \n" .
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| one displayed correctly and the others
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| | "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
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| didn't. Odd. Why didn't the newsletter
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| | "Content-type: text/html;
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| work when I tried to copy, paste and
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| | charset=UTF-8");
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| email it. It's the same email and the
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| | Most, if not all web programming language
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| same code so it should work just as fine.
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| | include a feature which allows you to
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| Something was missing.
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| | send html data.
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| A couple of days later I went back to
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| | Tip: Make sure the code or software that
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| look at the code for the email thinking
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| | you use to send email has support for
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| that maybe I had overlooked something.
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| | MIME, which allows you to send non text
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| The source code was still the same,
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| | emails, HTML etx.
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| nothing had changed. So what could it be?
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| | So now you know the secret. It's not the
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| That's when I stumbled on to a small line
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| | code, it's the email's content type which
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| that would change everything.
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| | decides how to display your HTML email
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| The line I'm talking about is the
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| | newsletter. Now that you know how to send
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| content-type, which is part of every
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| | HTML email, make sure to test your
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| email's header file. I'd read about
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| | newsletters with different email accounts
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| content type, but most of it had to do
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| | (Yahoo, Hotmail, Google, etx). Each one
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| with XHTML webpages. After a little bit
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| | of them tends to display your HTML
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| of research here's what I discovered:
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| | differently. Test, Test, and Retest.
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