Whoooo boy. This is definitely entertaining if nothing else. ;)
My email client interpreted this message as HTML. So just to be happy, I'll
be replacing some brackets with their special character equivalent. Just to
make sure you can see it.
So for each email you should have something like (except that you'd have <
instead of < and you'd have > instead of >):
<CFMAIL ...>
<HTML>
<BODY>
some html message here
</BODY>
</HTML>
</CFMAIL>
Subsequent messages in the same file should look the same. Don't worry that
you have multiple body tags in the file-- ColdFusion server will take all
that out and only the HTML and BODY tags outside CFMAIL will be sent to the
browser.
At 02:59 PM 1/3/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Each piece of email you send should look something like this:
>
>the real message
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cami Lawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 2:54 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Re: Email links lost
>
>
>Ok, I see what you are saying, but where do the <html></html> tags go,
>inside the CFEMAIL or outside. I have a number of emails that get produced
>within one file.
>
>Thanks,
>cami
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jennifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 4:54 PM
>Subject: Re: Email links lost
>
>
> > At 04:24 PM 1/3/01 -0600, you wrote:
> > >Actually it is just a composed email within the CF file in a CFEMAIL with
> > >type=HTML.
> >
> > Right, but apparently it needs <html></html> tags and <body></body> tags
> > between the CFMail tags. If the content isn't in <HTML></HTML> tags, the
> > email client won't necessarily recognize it as an HTML document and
> > therefore won't interpret it as such. That could cause your problem. If
>the
> > non-working Outlook clients have different settings that could cause a
> > problem then too.
> >
> > I've made HTML messages with CFMail and had them work in Netscape. I know
> > it can be done. It seems that your message is being interpreted by the
> > client as plain text, which it will do automatically if it doesn't know
> > better. If the code is indented (as one would expect of HTML or other
>code)
> > this indentation will show up in a plain text email.
> >
> > > Like I said, it works great most of the time, but there are
> > >those times that it just looks ugly. I have since stripped the HTML tags
> > >out and most the email software interprets the http://www.something.com
>as a
> > >link without the tags. For pretty purposes I may leave it like that and
> > >those who don't get the link will have to cut and paste until I figure
>out
> > >how to make everyone happy.
> > >
> > >cami
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Jennifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 4:23 PM
> > >Subject: Re: Email links lost
> > >
> > >
> > > > Is the message itself a full HTML document? I just checked some HTML
>email
> > > > that works in both Netscape and Eudora and it contains full HTML
>headers,
> > > > body tags and all that stuff. The viewable content is all inside a
>table
> > > > and it could be that the table is indented, but I can't tell since
> > > > everything would be indented.
> > > >
> > > > At 02:38 PM 1/3/01 -0600, you wrote:
> > > > >All the tag information appears to be correct. Myself and some
>others
> > >are
> > > > >using MS Outlook Express 5 and the links appear ok, others are using
>the
> > > > >same thing and they see the html code. Still yet others using
>prodigy
> > >and
> > > > >netscape get the words indented and the html tags visible. I have
>tried
> > > > >leaving the HTML type and removing the href and just putting
> > > > >http://www.something.com and it works on some and won't on others.
>Right
> > > > >now I'm working on the majority rule but some higher ups want their
>cake
> > >and
> > > > >eat it too.
> > > > >
> > > > >cami
> > > > >----- Original Message -----
> > > > >From: "Jennifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > >To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > >Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 2:37 PM
> > > > >Subject: Re: Email links lost
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > At 02:04 PM 1/3/01 -0600, you wrote:
> > > > > > >I am sending out emails for different things and all have web
>links
> > >in
> > > > > > >them. I was just wondering if anyone has had problems with
>emails
> > >sent
> > > > > > >from CF not properly identifying web address links when received
>by
> > >the
> > > > > > >recipient. Is there something to handle the different types of
>email
> > > > > > >readers or is it just take a shot at the most used and pray for
>the
> > >best
> > > > > > >with the rest.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >I'm using type=HTML and some of the emails show all the html
>tags,
> > >some
> > > > > > >have the text but the url is not a link, while others are just
>fine.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I hope this doesn't sound patronizing, but you did put the link in
> > >proper
> > > > > > HTML link tags, right? Some HTML-enabled email clients (like
>Eudora)
> > > > > > recognize URLs and treat them as links, even if they don't have
>link
> > >tags.
> > > > > > If you do have the links between <a href ...></a> tags send us
>some
> > > > > > information about how different email clients handle the issue.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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