> You're going to have problems with some emails that contain special > characters.
Oh my. I think you misunderstood me. I'm *not* attempting to write iMail templates in XML. I'm writing a web app that uses XML and XSL stylesheets, which will then output regular iMail HTML files containing *no* XML. The interface will use clientside code to modify the XSL (Theory is, I'll take the standard iMail templates, and wrap each item in an XML tag), then when you get it the way you want the XML will be converted to HTML using XSLT, and output to a file. After you get all your templates complete, it will zip them all up and allow you to download them. Basicaly, what I'm attempting to do is make an easy to use application so people who want to tweek the iMail templates can do it without editing some 200+ iMail files. For example, just removing the "powered by iMail" in the lower left corner takes editing lots and lots of files by hand. > you're going to be using some Microsoft technology served up through IMail's > primitive web server. It's also one thing to customize a few variables in > the > templates. It's a whole different beast to practically rewrite every single > page. > There are around 200 web messaging template files and around 100 calendaring oh god, that would be a total nightmare. Although I'll probably end up redoing most of the iMail pages anyway, since most of them have some god-awful html in them. > templates. Some of them don't seem to be used for anything. If this is > just > something for yourself, you can take your time and it's no big deal. Yeah, it's just a pet project. Unfortunatly, I have too much "real" work to do right now, so this has been kinda put on the back burner. > I don't mean to discourage you. It's just that I have been trying to do > something similar when I've got some spare hours here and there... and it's > a > pain. Basically, I'm using COM/ASP/XML to build this honking wrapper for > IMail's web messaging. It may be pretty, but it's also pretty freakin' slow Wouldn't it just be easier to write a complete email app in ASP or .NET and forget the iMail server alltogether? > May the force be with you. It ain't easy, but if it's a learning excercise > that you're getting paid to do, I guess it's worth it. Nope. not getting paid to do it. If I was getting paid, I'd take even longer and charge by the hour. :) 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 the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
