HTML mails?

Lukus

Lukus

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So, uh, does anyone know how to send HTML mails?

I know html and all, and have this mail I want to send out - using only regular code like bold text, links, and IMG SRC's. I want it to display the HTML straight in the mail.

I tried with gmail and outlook to just enter the HTML tags, which obviously doesn't work. There's a setting in Outlook that says "omglol click here for HTML mails", but when I click it and use it as a setting for sending the email, there's no change in the result.

Anyone knows how to do it? I have a pal in teh office that sends HTML mails, but he's got some database server solution thingie that I dunno anything about, and he can't share it with me either. :/

HALP!
 
1.download & install Thunderbird & setup yer mail account
2.File->New Message
3.Adress Subject yadda yadda
4.Insert->HTML
5.Write your HTML
6.Send
7.Confirm that your mail be, indeed, sent in HTML
8.Profit?
 
Hookay, I'll try it - thanks for the tip!

Also, if it's of any relevance, I want to mail around 2000 people, and outlook is kind of limited with distribution lists and such, but I think I've managed to trick it by putting distribution lists into distribution lists, meaning I get one "legal" outlook file that contains 2000 contacts even though the limit is really 50. But I never tried that trick on a large scale.
 
outlook? i dont know, never used it.
i do know that the mailing list limitation is imposed by your email service provider (i.e. yahoo), and yes you can trick it that way, but i dont know if your provider will eventually allow you to spam in such a large scale. (2000 people? god.)

and if you make it, i think you'll be worthy of the spam achievement. just saying, i dont want to mess with your family business.
 
Ehehe, about spamming - it's all business contacts that have agreed to get mail. A lot of them are old of course (old = 3 years mebbe) but at least 1000 are from 2008.

We haven't done this type of thing before and I pretty much have to make it happen since I'm the only one who knows a little bit about anything in this company. (And I am no computer guy.) My boss doesn't have any idea what I'm even talking about when I'm trying to explain the situation. He's like "huh, well, what's this "email" phenomenon you keep mentioning?"

I just figger it would be pretty unneccessary to get some extremely expensive IT-guru mofo to do this for us.
 
okay, try thunderbird, it doesnt have a limitation.
then try to trick your provider with the including lists into lists trick thing.

also, i think gmail offers the option of making & maintaining online such business mailing lists, called google groups. (i get my daily spam from one of them in which i am member). never set up one, but if you follow their instructions how hard can it be?
 
Luke said:
Ehehe, about spamming - it's all business contacts that have agreed to get mail. A lot of them are old of course (old = 3 years mebbe) but at least 1000 are from 2008.

We haven't done this type of thing before and I pretty much have to make it happen since I'm the only one who knows a little bit about anything in this company. (And I am no computer guy.) My boss doesn't have any idea what I'm even talking about when I'm trying to explain the situation. He's like "huh, well, what's this "email" phenomenon you keep mentioning?"

I just figger it would be pretty unneccessary to get some extremely expensive IT-guru mofo to do this for us.
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I work for an IT company in gamla stan, Stockholm. drop by and we can come up with a good deal including a hefty price and you not getting what you paid for ;)
 
aenemic said:
I work for an IT company in gamla stan, Stockholm. drop by and we can come up with a good deal including a hefty price and you not getting what you paid for ;)
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Ehehe, awesome - can't get enough of such offers! I wish I could work there, I'm stuck up in west side Vasastan.

Thanks for the other tips, will try some more tomorrow.
 
zag said:
outlook? i dont know, never used it.
i do know that the mailing list limitation is imposed by your email service provider (i.e. yahoo), and yes you can trick it that way, but i dont know if your provider will eventually allow you to spam in such a large scale. (2000 people? god.)

and if you make it, i think you'll be worthy of the spam achievement. just saying, i dont want to mess with your family business.
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Technically it is the e-mail client that limits you on how many messages you can send. So in this case, outlook does hold one back.

Spammers won't use e-mail services such as yahoo. They create their own mail service, forge the headers, make the recipient think the message is from yahoo.

I think this article may be of help to the OP
http://www.slipstick.com/mail1/html.htm

Outlook does not provide a command to insert tables or other complex elements into HTML messages, nor does it give you a way to edit the source of an HTML message. The View Source command that you see on the right-click context menu in an HTML message does not let you save any changes to the source back into the message. There are several ways to compose complex HTML messages, though.
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well, spammers usually don't even need to forge headers (though it's common practise).
 
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