Hello vitalie, Sorry for my very late reply. Interpol was after me and I had to hide for a few day ;-)
The truth is that I was having hardware problems, to the point where both my two hard drives crashed almost simultaneously. >> No, don't panic. I haven't gone haywire. I still 'hate' HTML email but I >> must send a well formatted monthly newsletter and I have given up about >> doing it with TB. > >> I don't care about functionality of the email program as long as I can >> send a well formatted HTML message, with tables, once a month with it. > > please be a bit more wordy on this. > as we're looking forward to html templates, this is surely a matter > of interest for us. First of all, let me clarify that when I said "well formatted HTML message" I meant a message "formatted the way I wanted", and which I had actually done in December with the Christmas Edition. At least I don't recall having the problems I had the other day. > what sort of tables do you create, what sort of info do you fill and > what sort of info is/would-be-nice-to filled automagically, if any. > > also, in what aspect is the TB-generated html considered not > well-formatted? OK, let me say first that I think I've tried to send an HTML message only three times, so I must admit I have not much experience in composing HTML messages with TB. The first time was last December, when I decided to send my monthly newsletter (normally plain text) as HTML so I could include some "Christmas decoration" and I don't recall having much problem in doing what I wanted. What I wanted to do the last time was to compose a message with black background and then have the text centre aligned, with a light grey background, with a fixed width of 600 pixels and justified. This is why I though the best way was to use a centered aligned table of the desired width and where a row would be used for each item of the newsletter. Although initially things seem to work, most problems appeared after I had saved the message in DRAFTS folder (I mean... Outbox ;) and re-opened it to continue composing it at a later time. The main problems I recall were: - The message black background was lost and appeared as white. - The center alignment of the table was lost and table appeared on the left. - The spacing between paragraphs (even in the same table row) appeared to be at least double of what they originally were and I didn't find a way to correct that. - After pasting a new paragraph in a row, I did an Edit/Undo and some other paragraphs and table rows 'disappeared'. - I couldn't finally get table and row borders completely transparent as I had done for my previous two newsletters. And things of that sort. But again, it may be that I'm not an 'expert' HTML composer. However, just to test, I tried to do the same thing with GroupMail and I got it done on first trial. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v3.71.03 on Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.72.01 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
