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How can I do these? i'm intrested in making newsletters for my website and html e-mails always look so much ebtter, with image headings...etc anyway, when ever I get one I don't see an attachment, I would have expected to see it in the form of a .txt file or something similar, but it isn't
can someone tell me what I need to write them in? thanks.

lol, no I wasn't being sarcastic, thanks for your help.

monkey_man wrote:
> Was that sarcastic?

Hmmm, I hope not!

*funkygamer rummages for Uzi 9mm*

Anytime.

There are definatley free some PERL scripts out there that let you send e-mails, I used one about a year ago! You should be able to ammend it to send HTML instead, but do take a look into using the right message headers for text or HTML e-mails.

Bottom line is, if you test it, and it works, go with it!

Was that sarcastic?

oooh, thanks alot Funkygamer, didn't know it would need CGI :D:D:D i'm very happy.

Where I work we send out both HTML and text based e-mails. The HTML ones do look nicer, but personally, I don't like that when you click on them when you are offline, your PC tries to get back online to download images and stuff, though I suppose this does not matter if you are using Hotmail.

If you want to do it, just find a CGI script that sends e-mail for you, then, write your HTML as you normally would, then copy the HTML into the part of the CGI script that formats the e-mail, you may need to break the HTML up into lines and append it to one long string variable, ie,

---------------------------
SET msgString ""
append messageString ""
append messageString ""
append messageString "
append messageString ""
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(OK, so I use TCL, throw me a frikkin bone here!)

Or you might be able to write it as one long string, depends on your template I suppose.

More advanced scripts let you send both HTML and text based versions in the same e-mail, you just need to set the right message headers at the start of the different versions, both versions are sent to the mail client, but the client can choose which one to display, based upon whatever the users preferences are set too.

Yeah it does depend on what the users using, but I think most e-mail services back it up, don't know how to switch it off, but on Hotmail it doesn't show the file thats being viewed, just looks like a normal e-mail.

Doesn't it depend on what the user is using? Hotmail automatically display any html files, but I think it can be switched off.

How can I do these? i'm intrested in making newsletters for my website and html e-mails always look so much ebtter, with image headings...etc anyway, when ever I get one I don't see an attachment, I would have expected to see it in the form of a .txt file or something similar, but it isn't
can someone tell me what I need to write them in? thanks.