How to send HTML enabled e-mails

**007shahid** · Oct 5th, 2002, 05:57 AM

I want to send the following html code through e-mail. This is a part of a project that I am working on. How to make this viewable in an e-mail. Does hotmail support HTML page viewing.

Code:

<html>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" S-Label-Fields="TRUE" S-Email-Address="[email protected]" S-Email-Format="TEXT/PRE" -->
  <p><input type="text" name="T1" size="20"></p>
  <p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

**DiGiTaIErRoR** · Oct 5th, 2002, 02:05 PM

Viewing it as html is the receiver's option.

**parksie** · Oct 6th, 2002, 11:43 AM

You should never send HTML email anyway. As DE says, it's the receiver's choice.

I have it disabled in KMail, and only turn it on for specific recipients I trust

That code won't work anyway. You need a FrontPage-extended server, so it would have to be a file on a server. Just email a plain-text message with the URL of your survey page (or whatever).

**007shahid** · Oct 7th, 2002, 07:33 AM

Well there goes my idea of making my own E-Mail Receiver/Sender like Outlook, with Mail Receipt feature (Though I know there are some on the net).

Here is how I wanted to do this...
The mail will be sent like this.

Dear ABC
This is the user's mail
-XYZ

The following added automatically by Mail Receipt
************
Mail Receipt
************
This form was generated by Mail Receipt.
Please Click 'Send Receipt' to send notification
----------------
|Sender's Mail |
----------------
----------------
| Send Receipt |
----------------

'Sender's Mail' is a TextBox & 'Send Receipt' would have been a push button and the form would have been created though the following code... (not perfect)

Code:

<html>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" S-Label-Fields="TRUE" S-Email-Address="[email protected]" S-Email-Format="TEXT/PRE" -->
  <p><input type="text" name="T1" size="20"></p>
  <p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

[email protected] would be replaced by the sender's e-mail and the text box would have had the value of the sender's e-mail.

Hence if the viewer is checking his mail from a browser, he simply needs to click the push button. (Would not take more than 2 seconds).
And if the mail is seen through my outlook like program, then my program would check for...

************
Mail Receipt
************

and show the mail upto this part and not the form. It would have however gone through the form, got the sender's e-mail id and send him a mail.

Well got to think of something else

**parksie** · Oct 7th, 2002, 11:40 AM

Hang on, you want to see if the recipient read the email? Why not just send it with a read receipt notification? (Look them up...)

**007shahid** · Oct 7th, 2002, 11:28 PM

I didn't understand you. But I am not talking about private messages like in VB FORUMS, but e-mail from say Hotmail.com to Yahoo.com.

**parksie** · Oct 8th, 2002, 04:35 AM

No, normal emails can have read receipts, that's where the concept in the PMs came from.

Use google...

**007shahid** · Oct 9th, 2002, 11:01 PM

Originally posted by parksie
No, normal emails can have read receipts, that's where the concept in the PMs came from.

Use google...

Yes! That is why we can implement the receipt feature from program like outlook or by the e-mail providers.
Eg: A mail from Hotmail to Hotmail
A sends mail to B. B opens the e-mail. Now hotmail already has code to see if the mail is read or unread. The moment the first unread status takes place, hotmail can get senders address and send a mail through their server that the mail has been read.

Also, See first item here http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...q=Mail+Receipt

**parksie** · Oct 10th, 2002, 04:48 AM

Note of warning, some people have them disabled in their email clients because of privacy issues (I get asked each time, and only send one to people I know).

**DiGiTaIErRoR** · Oct 10th, 2002, 06:31 AM

Originally posted by parksie
Note of warning, some people have them disabled in their email clients because of privacy issues (I get asked each time, and only send one to people I know).

That has been mentioned.

**parksie** · Oct 10th, 2002, 07:06 AM

No it hasn't...or at least it didn't read that way. I meant read receipts, not HTML.

**DiGiTaIErRoR** · Oct 10th, 2002, 07:46 AM

Originally posted by DiGiTaIErRoR
Viewing it as html is the receiver's option.

No it hasn't...or at least it didn't read that way. I meant read receipts, not HTML.

Really?

**parksie** · Oct 10th, 2002, 02:34 PM

Yes. I said that some people disable HTML email.

I subsequently said that some people *also* disable read receipts because it can be a violation of privacy.

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