AboutScottgem Expertise With over 16 years of experience in Information Technology I have acquired a large store of knowledge about computing. This enables me to answer a large variety of questions about computing.
Experience More than 12 years of using cyberspace and various e-mail systems.
Question QUESTION: I have a concert announcement that I will be emailing soon but I want it to appear as webpage content, not just as email text. I can create a webpage as the source. I have seen on certain emails where they enclose the url with "<" and ">" and I tried that but all I get when I check the email message is <whatever>.
Question: how do I encode my email message so that the recipient sees a "webpage," not just an email with text? Thanks. BTW, I use Outlook Express.I have a concert announcement that I will be emailing soon but I want it to appear as webpage content, not just as email text. I can create a webpage as the source. I have seen on certain emails where they enclose the url with "<" and ">" and I tried that but all I get when I check the email message is <whatever>.
Question: how do I encode my email message so that the recipient sees a "webpage," not just an email with text? Thanks. BTW, I use Outlook Express.
ANSWER: You have to format and send the e-mail in HTML format. But there is no guarantee the recipient will see it that way unless they have their e-mail client set to receive HTML formatted e-mail.
A better alternative would be to send them a PDF attachment.
Hope this helps
Scott<>
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QUESTION: So, to send the email in html format, could I simply copy the source code from my webpage and send that as the email content?
ANSWER: pretty much
Hope this helps
Scott<>
Re your comments. I use that method ALL the time. It works great. So maybe the problem is you didn't follow the instructions correctly, even though I gave you very specific ones. I really resent the "more thoughtful comment" since I am very careful in composing my responses. Since I am an Access MVP as well as the author of a book on Access, my knowledge of Access is well above average.
If you want to explain what didn't work. maybe I can see where you went wrong.
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QUESTION: Me: "So, to send the email in html format, could I simply copy the source code from my webpage and send that as the email content?"
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You: "pretty much."
Answer OOPs. My apologies. That's what comes of answering so many questions every day. Apparently I got my askers and answers confused.
Ok the reason I said "pretty much" was because a server based WEB page has header data that is not quite appropriate for an e-mail. This is an area where I'm not hugely knowledgeable. So I'm not real sure of how to modify an server HTML page to an E-mail. Maybe another expert can help more with that. Again my apologies for the mixup.
