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Nov 21st, 2005, 06:49 AM
FishGuy

HTML Email

Hi,
When I receive certain emails they appear as a webpage i.e HTML formatted text and graphics images etc. How do I send emails the same?
Nov 22nd, 2005, 12:38 PM
RobDog888

Re: HTML Email

I am awake now. :D

If you mean manually then if your using Outlook you can change your settings in the Options > Mail Format > Message Format > "Compose in this message format:" > and choose HTML.

If you mean programmatically I can post the code too but I think you may mean manually.
Nov 22nd, 2005, 03:19 PM
FishGuy

Re: HTML Email

I have changed the settings to be html but where do I place the html code?
If I type it directly into the message body it doesnt display as rendered html when received by a recipient its still just code!
What I am trying to do is send emails that appear as webpages.
Nov 22nd, 2005, 03:28 PM
RobDog888

Re: HTML Email

For that ot happen the receipient must be able to view their emails as HTML too. When you type into the body it will be like using FrontPage or any WYSIWYG editor.

I have some code on the forums for this let me search for it.
Nov 22nd, 2005, 03:39 PM
RobDog888

Re: HTML Email

Couldnt find it. What version of Outlook are you using? I will write up something quickly.

Meanwhile this is a link for Outlook 2000 and before.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...roHTMLBody.asp
Nov 22nd, 2005, 04:05 PM
FishGuy

Re: HTML Email

Hi Rob,
I think its just me being stupid but if I set the message to be of type HTML
and in the message paste
<HTML>
<BODY BGCOLOR="RED">
<B>HTML EMAIL</B>
</BODY>
</HTML>

should it not display as a html page, (I guess not because I tried it) but thats what Im wanting to do, design an email that displays like a wepage in outlook through code.

PS Im using Outlook express which I got free with XP, but I know its capable of displaying these emails because thats how most spam I receive is displayed.

Re: HTML Email

Here is a quick and dirty demo.

VB Code:

Option Explicit
'Add a reference to MS Outlook xx.0 Object Library
Private moApp As Outlook.Application
 
Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim oEmail As Outlook.MailItem
    Dim strBody As String
    
    Set oEmail = moApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
    strBody = "<HTML><HEADER><TITLE>RobDog888 HTML Email DEMO</TITLE></HEAD>"
    strBody = strBody & "<BODY bgcolor='green'>Testing</BODY></HTML>"
    With oEmail
        .BodyFormat = olFormatHTML
        .HTMLBody = strBody
        .Subject = "RobDog888 HTML DEMO"
        .Save 'Saves it to the Drafts folder
        .Display
    End With
End Sub
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
    Set moApp = New Outlook.Application
End Sub
 
Private Sub Form_QueryUnload(Cancel As Integer, UnloadMode As Integer)
    moApp.Quit
    Set moApp = Nothing
End Sub

Nov 23rd, 2005, 04:20 AM
FishGuy

Re: HTML Email

Thanks I see what is happening there in vb code, but is there no way to just type HTML direct into an email through Outloook?
Nov 23rd, 2005, 04:31 AM
RobDog888

Re: HTML Email

I suppose you could change your options. Option > Mail Format > Use Word to edit emails, but thats still a WYSIWYG editor.