> From: Dan Crevier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:31:13 -0800
> Subject: Re: Complex HTML e-mails
>
> On 2/17/01 12:43 PM, "Jim Colgate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I haven't seen this specific issue on the list (or at least did not
>> recognize it), so I thought I would pass on what I learned this week.
>>
>> If you have received the pretty e-mails from Intuit or E-Trade or such that
>> have all the pictures and extensive formatting with boarders, panes, etc.,
>> that is what I mean by complex HTML.
>>
>> This week I received an e-Newsletter from one of the companies I deal with
>> in this complex HTML format and wanted to pass it on to a fellow worker.
>> When I forwarded it, everything but the text size formatting was lost. The
>> whole effect of the newsletter was gone.
>>
>> The workaround I found was to drag the message to the desktop. Create a new
>> message to the fellow worker and then drag the message back from the desktop
>> into the attachment pane. It then went out as an attachment and all the
>> complex HTML formatting was preserved. I suspect that I could just drag the
>> message from the list directly into the attachment pane of the new draft
>> message saving the transfer to desktop and back steps, but did not try that.
>>
>> I wonder if redirect would also preserve the formatting????
>>
>> It would be nice if Entourage was symmetrical so that if it can display a
>> format, that it could also send it.
>
> That would require reducing what we could display, which I think would be a
> bad thing. When forwarding it, we have to reduce it to what is editable,
> and our message composition does not allow "complex HTML".
>
> Dan
>
I just said it would be "nice" but I think the choice that you made is the
correct one. Is there an easier way to "forward" such a complex HTML file
than the multi-step process I found? If not this might be a candidate for a
script (Paul??).
Jim
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