HTML Emails

[PetrolTed]

Anyone experienced in sending HTML emails?

I've noticed that the emails that I send out are 'massaged' by some email clients or servers resulting in bizarre results.

www.pistonheads.com/include/images/black-spacer.gif

becomes

www.pistonheads.com/include/im ages/black-spacer.gif

and

htptp://www.pistonheads.com:80/include/images/right-arrow.gif becomes

www.pistonheads.com/include/images/right-arro! w.gif

[BliarOut]

Just a thought, try shortening the path and sticking to 8.3 naming.

[PetrolTed]

Can't see why 8.3 naming would make any difference. This is HTML we're dealing with not the OS.

[Pigeon]

HTML email is evil Also, some people set filters to reject HTML email because it is a pretty good anti-spam measure to do that.

[size13]

My brother does, I'll see if he'll pop along

[BliarOut]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;178220&Product=out

Might help... Interestingly, it's to do with syntax

My 8.3 response is just one of my many standard no brainer fixes after having been caught out by it in many unexpected ways over the years.

Try dropping the hyphen?

[zumbruk]

Pigeon said:

HTML email is evil

No smiley needed. It *is* evil. My mail client does not render or display HTML in emails, and if there is no plain text part, the email is silently discarded.

[Bonce]

I have a similar problem, an HTML email I send from a webserver to my inbox contains an IP address and sometimes, but not always, the last full stop of the IP address will be missing! No other part of the HTML body seems affected.

How queer!

[PetrolTed]

zumbruk said:

Pigeon said: HTML email is evil No smiley needed. It *is* evil. My mail client does not render or display HTML in emails, and if there is no plain text part, the email is silently discarded.

I do provide a plain text equivalent. Whilst the technology may be imperfect the results are useful.

[PetrolTed]

BliarOut said:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;178220&Product=out Might help... Interestingly, it's to do with syntax My 8.3 response is just one of my many standard no brainer fixes after having been caught out by it in many unexpected ways over the years. Try dropping the hyphen?

Thanks for that. I'll give it a bash.