On 2/19/01 9:22 PM, "Jim Colgate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> 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??).
Redirect also preserves the formatting.
Dan
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