Ryan, While I don't send out many emails, here is some stuff I have tested (not 100% accurate though ;))
http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:218.view http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:61.view http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:261.view When I do send out news letters, I do use CFMailPart for rich and plain text. Images you can either do inline (see above links) or as an attachment. If you do HTML images (with external links ... Ie, not embedded) then most mail clients will not show them by default (user must click to download image). HTML is a bit different from client to client. Things like tag margins, borders, padding... All different from client to client. Just come up with a simple design and test on popular clients (ie. Gmail, hotmail, outlook, thunderbird, etc). I find that TABLE layouts seem to be the most cross-client compatible. But again, I don't have a lot of experience here. Hope any of that helps, ben ...................... Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer www.bennadel.com -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Stille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:33 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Sending newsletters - HTML and text emails I'm looking for some input on sending HTML vs text type emails. Example: a site owner wants a tool to send emails to his website subscribers. Site owner wants to send rich text style email with bold, italics, colors, possibly an image. Do you typically use cfmailpart to send an HTML and text version? If so how do you prompt the user for the content? I could strip the HTML tags from the submitted content, and use that for the text version. But whatever WYSIWYG editor I use, I'm sure the HTML will be muddled to heck and the resulting html-to-text conversion will not leave the proper paragraph breaks. Perhaps prompt the site owner for two versions of the email, one using a rich text editor and one using a regular textarea? I was wondering about the feasibility of sending only the HTML version. I imagine most clients can gracefully degrade an HTML message and display it? -Ryan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:256190 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
