Jochem, Thanks for your reply on this subject.
> Can you see in the source of the email whether any HTML is missing or > that it is just incompletely rendered by the email client? If it is In the source of the email, the "chopped off stuff" is just not there. It is not a problem of incomplete rendering. > Does the malforming take place around weird characters (control > characters, maybe the high ASCII numbers)? Does it take place in long > lines? No - that's what I thought might be happening at first. No weird characters or anything. Lines aren't particularly long either. > Can you post a snippet which shows the malformed email? Here are code snippets of a VIEW SOURCE from a browser and from email client. The first snippet between ---'s is from a browser. This is the way the code SHOULD look. The second snippet between *'s is from Outlook 2002. ----------------------Browser Start in Nucor fell about 7 percent, or U.S. $2.41, to $34.59 in lunchtime trading. Steel shares have suffered as prolonged pricing difficulties and slow economic demand have not turned around as some expected. <i>(Financial Times)</i> <P></p> <p></p> <b>43. PALM REPORTS REVENUES FALL 47 PERCENT</b><br> ----------------------Browser End **********************Outlook 2002 Start in Nucor fell about 7 percent, or U.S. $2.41, to $34.59 in lunc <b>43. PALM REPORTS REVENUES FALL 47 PERCENT</b><br> **********************Outlook 2002 End As you can see, the email client for some reason clips off from the "c" in the word "lunchtime" and then picks up a couple of paragraph codes later. I have looked at this in a version mailed to a Hotmail account and I get the same clipping in the email sent there. Thanks for any ideas what could be causing this. Regards, Paul Sinclair > -----Original Message----- > From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 8:41 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: HTML okay in browser > > > Paul Sinclair wrote: > > > I've got an application sending out a newsletter via > CFMail. The email > > that goes out is set to HTML. The items in the newsletter > are picked out > > dynamically from a db query. When I generate the > newsletter, I also save > > it to an outputted html file for browsing on the web. > > > > When I view the html file in a browser, it is fine. But > when it comes > > via email, there are places in the output where some of the html is > > missing. For example, a paragraph may be truncated in mid-paragraph. > > > Can you see in the source of the email whether any HTML is missing or > that it is just incompletely rendered by the email client? If it is > malformed in the source as well, can you send the newsletter to some > malformed address so it ends up in the undelivr dir and see > whether it > is already malformed there? > > Does the malforming take place around weird characters (control > characters, maybe the high ASCII numbers)? Does it take place in long > lines? Can you post a snippet which shows the malformed email? > > > > > I've looked at the db entries and there isn't anything > unusual about the > > records where the paragraphs are being truncated. I can't > figure out why > > these specific paragraphs are getting truncated, but it happens each > > time I generate the newsletter and in exactly the same place(s) > > everytime. > > > > Anything unusual about the cfmail function that might be > causing this? > > > It is known for not playing nice with long lines. > > Jochem > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
