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undyingking ([personal profile] undyingking) wrote2007-10-26 07:16 pm
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Mac Mail

Does anyone out there use Mac Mail, and could help me with (a) some information and (b) a test?

[identity profile] dr-bob.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
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...

[identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] zandev.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm, I'm not sure how to do this in Mac Mail. There is an option for viewing the raw source of html mail, but apparently only for incoming messages.

[identity profile] zandev.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, as a further update:

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...)

[identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
if you just select a web page then copy-and-paste it

Does that pick up the properties of the <body> tag eg. background colour, can you tell? And embedded <style> info?

[identity profile] zandev.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
If you want to give it a test, you could send it to me, and I could try to send it back to you by Mac Mail.

[identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, great, thanks! I've just now emailed it to your hotmail address as an attachment.

[identity profile] zandev.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I've mailed it back.

Sadly, I've not yet found a way of getting the background colour right though.

[identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com 2007-10-27 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
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?