Re: Which html email program
On Jan 31, 3:22 pm, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote: I now need to send out email in the html format with pictures etc. as a Newsletter to about 2,000 addresses each month. I need your guidance on how to do this Like everybody said, BUT... If you create the HTML in an external HTML editor, Thunderbird will let you insert it directly into an email. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Which html email program
On 31 Jan 2009, at 14:22:38 PST, Jonas Lopez wrote: Which html email program I now need to send out email in the html format with pictures etc. as a Newsletter to about 2,000 addresses each month. I need your guidance on how to do this G4 PPC -- Guidance. Now there's a dangerous query! Depends on what you want your recipients to see. If you want them to see it as you formatted the newsletter, it is probably best to produce the newsletter in something like AppleWorks and then Print to PDF and send the pdf document as an attachment to an email. This is what my wife did for years. Seemed to work fairly well, except for a few 'doze users who couldn't seem to open the file due to their security settings. If the specific appearance is not too important, you could just compose the newsletter in Mail and send it off. Just how it looks then depends a lot on the email client of the recipient and the settings the recipient happens to have active. Ken http://mysite.verizon.net/res7gt1w/stackomacs --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Which html email program
At 2:22 PM -0800 1/31/2009, Jonas Lopez wrote: Which html email program I now need to send out email in the html format with pictures etc. as a Newsletter to about 2,000 addresses each month. I need your guidance on how to do this Create the newsletter in an appropriate app - AppleWorks, Pages, NeoOffice, etc. Save it as PDF. Put the PDF file online. Email the URL to 2000 of your best friends. Creating a fully graphic html-formatted email sounds like a good idea, but it's not, way not, totaly not. You won't be able to guarantee the email looks right to everyone. It will look like extreme garbage to anyone that doesn't have html enabled. And worse, your ISP will chase you with a stick for spamming such a large mess out. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Which html email program
On 31-01-2009 23:22, Jonas Lopez, jonaslo...@yahoo.com, wrote: Which html email program Sorry, but IMHO, html has not to be in e-mail. E-mail has to be in plain text. Html is for web-browsers etc. I now need to send out email in the html format with pictures etc. as a Newsletter to about 2,000 addresses each month. Make your Newsletter in plain text and put your pictures etc. in the attachmentbox. Again IMHO, that's the only way you can be sure that every receiver on any platform/OS etc. will receive your Newsletter in a proper and readable way. And it's the most simple way to create. I need your guidance on how to do this See above and HTH, Jo Hissel --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Which html email program
At 2:22 PM -0800 1/31/09, Jonas Lopez wrote: Which html email program I now need to send out email in the html format with pictures etc. as a Newsletter to about 2,000 addresses each month. I need your guidance on how to do this I've long been anti-HTML email. Specifically for the reasons stated by Dan: it will likely look like garbage on many email clients. (most of the html email I receive on Eudora, for instance, comes in disjointed image slices. It's near impossible to set the window to exactly the right width to view it as intended. I also roll my virtual eyes whenever I get an email with a background pattern which is reduced on my system to a little patch of color off in some corner. ) PDFs have a downside as well: They're often Really Big Files. Sometimes that's a matter of operator error - I just discovered that one of our clients' PDF newsletters was huge because the person who did the layup was including enormous versions of most images - even when only a small clip of it was displayed - and various other bloat techniques. But PDFs are by their nature larger than plain text with images Now imagine the server bogging down as it sends 2000 times that file size. Ouch. We recently convinced the above client to switch from their PDF newsletter to putting the news on their website in a blog-style page, with a short, text only email with short announcements and/or teasers and links to the site. The advantages are: 1) the members don't get huge periodic emails that they may or may not read 2) it drives relevant traffic to the website, which is typically a goal of most website owners 3) Fresh website content makes search engines happy, another important goal of a website. The disadvantages are: 1) it's an extra step for the members to remember to go to the website to read it periodically. (personally, I *prefer* to get most of my news via text email, and have been known to stop following certain news sources when they went all web. That is why the teaser email in lieu of the full newsletter-by-email is important. Those who are interested may still need to be reminded to go look) -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw Bale Registry: http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/ Books/videos/software: http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
