Re: HTML rendering problems which may be fixed when IMail v7 arrives. When is IMail v7 expected? - GVW ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 10:24 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] HTML page rendering by the IMail web user interface? > > We have an evaluation copy of IMail v6.00 that has been downloaded and > > installed. We are trying out IMail using web messaging and would > > like to use > > that as the exclusive email client available to our user community. > > > > If a web page is sent by a browser (IE or Netscape) using the "Send Page" > > option, the web page does not render properly when viewed in the IMail Web > > messaging client? Doesn't web messaging handle HTML pages with tables and > > graphics as email? For example, if you view something as simple as > > http://quote.yahoo.com/ in a browser and click on "Send Page" to email to > > an IMail account, when this is then viewed via IMail's web messaging the > > page is virtually unrecognizable? Simple HTML email composed in Outlook > > Express, for example, looks okay. Is there some parameter > > setting we need > > to make? > > Unfortunately, IMail's web messaging parser does some wacky stuff to > HTML-formatted email messages. Just do a view source from the web templates > on one of these messages (even one sent from Outlook), and you'll see that > most of the whitespace (tabs and spaces) have been replaced with " " > strings, which increases the kb size of these messages by at least a factor > of 3, and breaks most table layouts. Also, if a user composes an HTML > message in Outlook with Word as the editor, the parser doesn't even > recognize the message as HTML, and will display all the code raw. Ipswitch > is aware of these problems, and we hope to have them fixed when IMail v7 > arrives. > > Ron > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://killerwebmail.com - the name says it all > > > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
