I agree with a lot of the comments so far, just to add one last thing; As emails and web services etc are starting to appear on more and more wireless devices, which generally, have lower bandwidth, smaller screens, the size/content of message will be more of an issue.
< main points > Allow user choose format (html & text & both) Allow users to choose what they get, eg digest v's lots og mail Target your mails (platform, OS, viewers , bandwidth) and include info on how to change all the above in each mail. Justin > -----Original Message----- > From: Niklas Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 01 October 2002 13:18 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Emails > > > > having said that html e-mails are a pain, many people also > > really like them. > > the uk cfug newsletter IMHO is an example of an HTML > > newsletter done really > > well. > > Hey! Thanks for the comments! :) > > We actually use multipart to cater for both kinds of user. The emails > are about 66k as we don't embed any images. This is quite chunky, but > the result is really good. Also, we could probably bring that down as > the HTML seems to contain A LOT of white space! > > I actually had to write the multipart emailer as the mail file format is > different in CFMX than in previous versions of CF. If anyone is > interested in having the CFMX code let me know offline! > > Cheers > > Niklas > > > > -- > ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
