Formating Email Message

[Jumpercables]

I am sending an email message via the Shell Command. However I want to make some of the text bold or underlined with other parts regular text.

I have tried the following but it doesn't seem to be working

Dim strMessage As String
 
strMessage = "[b]THIS IS BOLD[/b]" & vbCrLf
strMessage = strMessage & "[u]THIS IS UNDERLINED[/u]" & vbCrL
strMessage = strMessage & "This is normal" & vbCrL
 
blnSuccess = Email(&H0, strTo, "TESTING", strMessage)

However when I try to this technique I just get all the text out instead of the Bold or Underlined works. I have the emailer set to HTML.

Any ideas if this is possible. Thanks

[shirazamod]

Try surround the bold text with <b>

[Jumpercables]

I have tried both [] and <> however when the email message is opened it just has "<b>THIS IS BOLD</b> or THIS IS BOLD" and same for underlining.

[shirazamod]

I seem to remember that you need to add a header to specify that the email is in HTML, and then use <b>bold text here</b>.

Search google for sending HTML emails and you should find something

[shirazamod]

I did some investigating and it should work if you add this to the top of your email

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

and then use <b>This is bold text</b>

[Edited by MartinLiss]

[Al42]

How the email appears to the receiver depends on the client the email is being viewed in. A POP3 client (a bare client, not one calling Word to view files) will see [b]text[/b] as [b]text[/b], not as text - since email is specified as a text medium - characters only. In order to have text appear bold to the receiver, you have to know whether the receiver can read html email (which is an oxymoron).

[shirazamod]

[b] is BBCode which is why it won't work in an email, it only works in certain forums.
<b> is HTML, which is supported by just about all clients, so if you include the header that I gave you above it will work fine

[Jumpercables]

I will give a try in a few minutes when I have a chance an let you know.

[shirazamod]

Did it work?

[Al42]

[b] is BBCode which is why it won't work in an email, it only works in certain forums.
<b> is HTML, which is supported by just about all clients

All clients that default to reading html, which is fewer and fewer as the exploits increase. One of these days people are going to start realizing that Microsoft's errors don't redefine internet RFCs.