> I've been updating the web messaging templates to fit my company's
> appearance, and I'm having trouble. It seems the internal "web
> server" used by IMail has some *INCREDIBLY* frustrating "features".
Remember, the IMail web server isn't designed to do anything fancy, except serve web
pages that are integrated with E-mail. If IMail hasn't thought of something you might
want to do with the web pages, you probably can find a way to do it, but need to
realize that the web server wasn't designed to be as full-featured as IIS.
> For instance, when including stylesheets with the <LINK> tag, the
> server doesn't send it! I finally got around that little bug by
> naming my css document as a .gif!!
For CSS files, I use:
<STYLE>
<!--IMAIL.Include.filename.css-->
</STYLE>
That way, I can have the .CSS file separate from the HTML file. I don't think I tried
using the LINK tag.
> Right now my difficulties are with the system not sending updated
> files. That is, when I change a linked file, like an image, if it's
> replacing an older one, the server doesn't send the new one.
I saw that at one point, too, but can't remember how I resolved it. It may be that
certain file types or file names it will update, but not others? In any case, you can
always put static files (anything not needing the <--IMAIL.--> tags) on another web
server, if you have one available. I put all the .GIF files on another web server, to
clear up the log files on IMail and because one person kept having problems with one
or two of the graphics not appearing on his screen.
> Are there any other "quirks" I should know about?
The other one that I can think of is that if you do use the IMAIL.Include tag, it will
convert certain characters (like a greater than sign will become >). This is good
for text (so if you include a file that has <something like this>, you'll see it, and
the web browser won't think it is an HTML tag). But, for anything you want the web
browser to see (such as HTML tags, javascript code, etc.), you don't want that
conversion, so you need to use a .CGI extention (which IMail doesn't convert).
> Also, is there an updated tags.doc file? I'm finding tags in the
> templates that aren't listed in the documentation.
What tags did you find? I don't recall seeing any that I didn't find in the tags.doc
file (although I didn't look up nearly all of them), and would be interested.
-Scott
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