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Dave
March 29th, 2004, 01:36 AM
Hey guys

Can someone please tell me wat is a html email, how is it diffrent to other emails if that makes sense.

How do you send them and create them?

Thanks :D
red_A
March 29th, 2004, 03:48 AM
<a href="mailto:you@yourhost.org subject=from this is what will appear as the subject when some clicks on the email">


Hope that helps!
andr.in
March 29th, 2004, 10:08 AM
I think he means html in e-mails ...

A html mail message is basically like a html page inside a mail message... you can do al kinds of layout tricks with html that will be displayed in the e-mail message. You can even embed pictures and stuff in it...
Usually the e-mail is in rich text but you need specific headers to make it html. (some e-mail progs let ya choose)

of course complex html mail messages are bigger than rich text.

If you want to send a html e-mail with php you have to define the extra headers yourself.

something like this:



Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"

and every html begins with <html> and <body> tags as most ppl know. (and end with </body> and </html>)

you can compare the headers when using outlook or something. Create a mail message, save it onto your hard drive and then open it up in notepad... the subject and everything is all defined in the headers... even you IP. (yes e-mails are trackable.... sorta :smirk: )
Dave
March 29th, 2004, 05:52 PM
ok thanks for your reply.

How do you send these html emails though? Is it through outlook? Particular software??

So if i create a basic html page with text and pics, and then i copy and paste the code into the email, program will that make it a html email??

thanks guys :te:
andr.in
March 29th, 2004, 11:27 PM
well outlook for example lets ya choose. When you're writing a new message you can choose the message format on from the top. "html, rich text, plain text".

I think it's impossible to use html if you just send mails from hotmail.com (without an e-mail prog). hotmail doesn't seem to have that option...

dunno about other mail service providers though