Re: sending an HTML file as the message, not an attachment

[Rick Merrill]

On 12/9/2015 12:03 PM, David E. Ross wrote:

On 12/9/2015 8:03 AM, Bob Fleischer wrote:

How would I send an HTML file as the mail message, not as an attachment?

I can insert the text of the HTML file into an HTML message I am
composing, but the result doesn't work correctly at the receiving end,
probably due to the HTML context into which the HTML file is inserted.

I just want to tell the mail editor: "Instead of you creating an HTML
file, send this one."

Thanks,
Bob



Unless the recipient has the same E-mail application that you have, it
is possible the recipient's application does not handle HTML the same
way your application handles it.  It is also possible that the recipient
has set an option to display E-mail as plain-text.

Last month, I studied a number of HTML-formatted messages I had received
and discovered that they contained an average of 6 HTML syntax errors
per thousand bytes of file-size.  I would suspect that SeaMonkey (using
the same mailnews core as Thunderbird, based on Gecko) might generate
HTML-formatted messages that are close to error-free.  However, a
different E-mail application that creates HTML-formatted messages with
significant HTML syntax errors might also have problems correctly
displaying HTML-formatted messages.

My solution is to create a Web page and upload it to my ISP's Web
server.  Then send a brief E-mail message with a link to that page.



re: ISP's Web server - Comcast (for one) no longer supports users' web 
pages.  Would a link to a dropbox folder work as well?


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Re: sending an HTML file as the message, not an attachment

[Bob Fleischer]

I found that if I installed Cygwin (free) with its command-line email 
program, that "email" can send an HTML file as an HTML email message.


Bob
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Re: sending an HTML file as the message, not an attachment

[Ed Mullen]

Bob Fleischer wrote on 12/9/2015 11:03 AM:

How would I send an HTML file as the mail message, not as an attachment?

I can insert the text of the HTML file into an HTML message I am
composing, but the result doesn't work correctly at the receiving end,
probably due to the HTML context into which the HTML file is inserted.

I just want to tell the mail editor: "Instead of you creating an HTML
file, send this one."

Thanks,
Bob


Open HTML file in a text editor or a browser View Source window.  Select 
all the HTML code, choose Copy.


Open an HTML mode compose window.  Choose Insert - HTML.  Paste the HTML 
code.


Note that you may lose some info depending on specified paths and URLs.

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Re: sending an HTML file as the message, not an attachment

[David E. Ross]

On 12/9/2015 8:03 AM, Bob Fleischer wrote:
> How would I send an HTML file as the mail message, not as an attachment?
> 
> I can insert the text of the HTML file into an HTML message I am 
> composing, but the result doesn't work correctly at the receiving end, 
> probably due to the HTML context into which the HTML file is inserted.
> 
> I just want to tell the mail editor: "Instead of you creating an HTML 
> file, send this one."
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob
> 

Unless the recipient has the same E-mail application that you have, it
is possible the recipient's application does not handle HTML the same
way your application handles it.  It is also possible that the recipient
has set an option to display E-mail as plain-text.

Last month, I studied a number of HTML-formatted messages I had received
and discovered that they contained an average of 6 HTML syntax errors
per thousand bytes of file-size.  I would suspect that SeaMonkey (using
the same mailnews core as Thunderbird, based on Gecko) might generate
HTML-formatted messages that are close to error-free.  However, a
different E-mail application that creates HTML-formatted messages with
significant HTML syntax errors might also have problems correctly
displaying HTML-formatted messages.

My solution is to create a Web page and upload it to my ISP's Web
server.  Then send a brief E-mail message with a link to that page.

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David E. Ross

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