First, the information, then: I have a guy who wants to mail out (using Mac Mail) a page of HTML I've made for him, in such a way that it appears in suitably-equipped readers' inboxes as just a lovely piece of HTML email with graphics embedded etc, and nothing having been turned into attachments. How can he do that? -- is there a mail-composition interface into which he can just paste the raw HTML code, or something like that?
the preferences-viewing option has a tickbox saying "display remote images in html messages" Does that do what you want? Generally Mail displays html fine for me, except from Virgin Media, for some reason.
as I understand, it's html you've written? could you mail it to him and get him to forward it? I'm not much of an html user but could try any sample files you send me and email them back to you. Meanwhile, I'll read the help pages...
Unfortunately I don't have an HTML-friendly mail client myself, so I can only send it to him as an attachment -- and then when he forwards that on, it stays as an attachment.
What I would ideally like is for him to instead be able to open my attachment, paste its contents into a new HTML email that he composes, and then send it out just as is.
Brilliant, OK, that came through nicely with the image properly inline. We can live without the background colour if everything else is OK. Thank you!
Now can you please give me a naive-user description of how you created that mail, starting from the attachment that I mailes you, that I can pass on to this guy?
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Date: 2007-10-26 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-26 06:34 pm (UTC)First, the information, then: I have a guy who wants to mail out (using Mac Mail) a page of HTML I've made for him, in such a way that it appears in suitably-equipped readers' inboxes as just a lovely piece of HTML email with graphics embedded etc, and nothing having been turned into attachments. How can he do that? -- is there a mail-composition interface into which he can just paste the raw HTML code, or something like that?
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Date: 2007-10-26 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-26 08:52 pm (UTC)No, to be clear, I don't require this guy with Mail to be able to view HTML. What I want is for him to be able to mail out HTML.
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Date: 2007-10-26 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-26 09:04 pm (UTC)What I would ideally like is for him to instead be able to open my attachment, paste its contents into a new HTML email that he composes, and then send it out just as is.
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Date: 2007-10-26 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-26 09:23 pm (UTC)It looks like Mac Mail does a pretty good job if you just select a web page then copy-and-paste it into your mail message.
This isn't quite what you requested, but might do with some experimentation.
(This is using Mac Mail on the new Mac OS that came out today...)
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Date: 2007-10-26 10:15 pm (UTC)Does that pick up the properties of the <body> tag eg. background colour, can you tell? And embedded <style> info?
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Date: 2007-10-26 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-26 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-26 11:25 pm (UTC)Sadly, I've not yet found a way of getting the background colour right though.
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Date: 2007-10-27 03:01 pm (UTC)Now can you please give me a naive-user description of how you created that mail, starting from the attachment that I mailes you, that I can pass on to this guy?
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Date: 2007-10-26 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-26 08:50 pm (UTC)