If you are running on OSX, then you can also (assuming you are into this
kind of thing)
* Enable PostFix on your box
* Build your own multi-part email
* send it thru using Shell to your mail server
Pros:
-- You completely bypass all mail client caveats
-- Content is fully under your control
Cons: a bit nerdy; you have to know how to build the email
But if you are doing this regularly, once set up, its very sweet.
I have chunks in fields that serve as the requisite headers and breaks
and then the actual body of the msg can be simple HTML.
If you want the full script, let me know... Assuming you have Post
script enabled and
your fill email is in a variable ready to send then
On createFinalEmailAndSendIt
#build your multi-part email from pre-set fields and body from
# your html field and put it into tMsg
put cr & "." & cr after tMsg ## You have your multi-part email in tMsg
## deal with Sendmail line length caveat....
# fix endlines to unix and then save to file
replace numtochar(13) WITH numtochar (10) in tMsg
put ($HOME &"/Desktop/temp.txt") into tPath
put tMsg into url ("binfile:" & tPath) # save him to file in case you
need him later
# introduce line breaks at the end of sentences into lines longer that
990 chars
# and two such breaks in the case of lines longer than 1980 chars.
# will break lines up to 2970. Lines longer than (very unlikely) will
be broken by Sendmail at 990
REPEAT FOR each line tLine in tMsg
SWITCH
CASE len(tLine)<990
put tLine & cr after tWrappedMsg
next REPEAT
break
CASE len(tLine)>1980
set the itemdel to "."
put round(the number of items of tLine/3) into tBreakPoint
put cr before item (tBreakPoint+1) of tLine
put cr before item (tBreakPoint*2) of tLine
put tLine & cr after tWrappedMsg
next REPEAT
break
CASE len(tLine)>990
set the itemdel to "."
put round(the number of items of tLine/2) into tBreakPoint
put cr before item (tBreakPoint+1) of tLine
put tLine & cr after tWrappedMsg
next REPEAT
break
END SWITCH
END REPEAT
set the itemdel to "," # just in case!
put tWrappedMsg into tMsg
replace cr WITH "\n" in tMsg
put tMsg into $DailyHPIEmail
--put tMsg; exit to top # testing
# Do shell stuff and send mail
# disable these two lines and nothing happens
set the shellcommand to "/bin/sh"
put "echo -e $DailyHPIEmail | sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] " & (fld
"to" of cd "staticText") into tCmd
--put "cat " & quote & tPath & quote & " | sendmail -f
[EMAIL PROTECTED] " & (fld "to" of cd "staticText") into tCmd
# for Testing shell cmds and only sending the email to a specific
address, not the list
--put "echo -e $DailyHPIEmail | sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] " &
"[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]" into tCmd
--put "echo -e $DailyHPIEmail > " & quote & tPath & quote into tCmd
--put tCmd # use this to grab the output string and test from terminal
--exit to top
# check on status and inform user or comment to run silent
-- -- put shell(tCmd) into tResult
-- -- IF tResult is empty THEN
-- answer "Mail was sent...." WITH "OK"
-- ELSE
-- answer tResult WITH "OK"
-- END IF
--delete file tPath # uncomment if you want to wipe the temp failsafe
file at end of sessions
END createFinalEmailAndSendIt
Ken Ray wrote:
Since no one responded to this, I'll take a stab...
But what is the magic? Is there a way in Run Rev to convert an HTML
page directly for email?
The problem here is that as soon as you leave the realm of plain text, you
enter the world of "what does the specific email client support"? That is,
assuming you want Mail to be the email client here that will be sending the
message, you need to then play in Mail's sandbox using whatever AppleScript
is supported in Mail to do this (more on this later). But of course whatever
you do will only work with Mail; if you want to send an HTML-formatted email
from Entourage or from Outlook (PC), etc. you'll need to do something
totally different.
The other alternative (if you don't want to use a third-party email client),
is to have Rev send SMTP-based email itself, and if you're interested in
that avenue, there are a couple of libraries out there to help you send SMTP
email.
Back to Mail... since you're sending a formatted field, I'm assuming it's
not pictures, so one way to do what you're looking for would be to
AppleScript the mail message by styling the text in the same way the field
is styled in Rev... there may be others, but this is the one I'm aware of...
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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