Brian, You may be out of luck, short of applying the styles inline. Hotmail strips certain tags from incoming messages, including all <style> tags and their contents. See this recent article for more detail: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssemail/.
One thing that my clients have done in these situations is to send just a short text or HTML email explaining the mailing, along with a link to a server-generated page that has all of the formatting that you expect. In other words, the email you send to Hotmail customers would contain a link to your own site (e.g. <a href="http://your.server.com/news/20050210.html";>Click for Alumni News</a>), and the resulting page would have all of the relevant formatting. The marketing people have a love/hate relationship with this approach, because they can't drop the great stuff right into an email, but if it's just one click away (and people are expecting the message), it's an acceptable problem to them. Good luck - Jim Jim Jurista Ravenglass Technologies, Inc. 3919 East Rd Cazenovia, NY 13035 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ravenglass.com/ 315-655-9354 Office 315-420-0436 Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Cold Fusion User Group CNY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian P. Hoke Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [CFUGCNY] HTML email on Hotmail I'm sending a HTML-formatted email to a group of people using CFMAIL. The email contents look as at bottom: I use CSS styles, written at the top of the document, to style the contents of the email. Works fine with almost all rendering engines: Outlook, AOL, and most web-based mail clients, like Yahoo. Hotmail, though, presents a problem: for some reason, the CSS styles don't apply to the contents. Given that this is a significant portion of our audience, I'm looking for a way to fix this. Any suggestions? Many thanks, ~Brian Brian P. Hoke Bentley & Hoke LLC http://www.bentleyhoke.com 315-446-2300 <cfmail> <head> <title>Alumni News</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style type="text/css" media="all"> body { background-color:##cc9; font:.9em "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin:0 0 20px 0; padding:0; text-align:center; } h1 { font-size:1.4em; margin-bottom:0; text-align:left; } /* more here */ </style> </head> <body> <div id="main"> <!--- content here ---> </div> </body> <cfmail> ________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'Unsubscribe CFUGCNY' in the body. To send a message to the list: [email protected] List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/index.html Visit our website: http://www.cfugcny.org ________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'Unsubscribe CFUGCNY' in the body. To send a message to the list: [email protected] List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/index.html Visit our website: http://www.cfugcny.org
