Hi
Thanks you Anthony for your incredible support that give me the ability to
achive my modest task (send HTML emails with embeded images under the 32k
limit)
if anyone is interested it worked with:
- a unique simple taf
- a unique batch working with base64.exe from www.fourmilab.ch
- a 'templates' directory wich contains subdirs for each template
each template may contains:
- an unique 'query.sql'
wich should return as many record as mail that you have to sent,
with each record must have [From] [SendTo] columns, and the dynamic datas
you need to include in each mail
- an unique 'email.tml'
wich should use the return from the previous query if it's available
this way: @@Local$QueryResult[@@Local$Row, <YOUR COLUMN NAME> ]
- multiple .gif/.jpg (warning: there is no 32k limitation test: it's up to
you to check this in your template)
If anyone is interested to use it I may rework on a tcf version and/or give
the current code
Thanks again to Anthony for taking the needed time to explain the basics of
email encoding!
Gauthier
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony M. Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 4:47 PM
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: HTML-compatible e-mail client sniffer
Yes, you can have alternative content in one e-mail message.
Unfortunately, this is one area where MS's ASP's CDO for NTS is better. If
you are using IIS on NT, you could create a TAF that writes an ASP file or
an ASP snippet, and this TAF file could also run that ASP file to send a
beautifully formatted text/HTML and alternate text/plain message, but it's
(internally) heavily MS branded. And you can even write custom headers with
CDO for NTS.
You can also do this with Witango. But you have to build the text-only
version of the message you want to send, and build the MIME headers around
it, and place it all in tango's "custom header", with it's 32k limitation.
The HTML version would go into the body.
I helped Gauthier to do this once, he was working on a TAF file to do this
at the time. I helped him get his headers "just right". If I recall, his
solution was even able to encode the pieces BASE64 (binary) or
Quoted-Printable (Text). Perhaps he could offer some help, or even some
sample code.
The really fun part of this is that you can include an image or two that you
use in the HTML version of the page in the HTML as well, provided that they
are quite small (because of Witango's current 32k limitation).
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chuck Lockwood
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:26 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: HTML-compatible e-mail client sniffer
Ok, I'm resorting to responding to my own posts!
This is a quote I found on an Email marketing companies web site. Does
anyone know how or where I can learn how to do this?
"The ____ system automatically sends out multi-part emails, which include
HTML, AOL and plain text versions. No matter what email program your
customer is using, your message will be delivered and viewed the way you
want it to be."
Thanks,
Chuck Lockwood
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LockData Technologies, Inc.
309 Main Avenue, Hawley, Pa 18428
Phone: 570-226-7340 ~ Fax: 570-226-7341
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://www.lockdata.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chuck Lockwood
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:46 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
Subject: Witango-Talk: HTML-compatible e-mail client sniffer
How do you determine if a client can except HTML email prior to sending it?
If going through an Exchange server, can you pass it both versions and will
Exchange figure it out?
I'd like to know of any and all solutions using Witango mail.
Thanks,
Chuck Lockwood
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LockData Technologies, Inc.
309 Main Avenue, Hawley, Pa 18428
Phone: 570-226-7340 ~ Fax: 570-226-7341
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://www.lockdata.com
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