HTML in Outlook

[amerar@iwc.net]

Hi All,

We use Outlook as our email client, go figure.

Anyhow, we have an application that creates a file and sends it to
several people in ur company. They want the emails to have different
color text and fonts.

Right now, the program simply creates a file on disk with all the HTML
tags in it, and then uses a stored Java routine our Oracle database to
send the email. But the email arrives with all the tags visible and no
HTML.

How can we do this? How is it different from typing in an email in
Outlook, and then going and changing the font color or size?

Thanks in advance.

Art

[Benjamin Niemann]

Re: HTML in Outlook

amerar@iwc.net wrote:
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> We use Outlook as our email client, go figure.
>
> Anyhow, we have an application that creates a file and sends it to
> several people in ur company. They want the emails to have different
> color text and fonts.
>
> Right now, the program simply creates a file on disk with all the HTML
> tags in it, and then uses a stored Java routine our Oracle database to
> send the email. But the email arrives with all the tags visible and no
> HTML.
>
> How can we do this? How is it different from typing in an email in
> Outlook, and then going and changing the font color or size?[/color]

You must set the 'Content-Type' header of the email to 'text/html'. It is
probably set to 'text/plain' or is absent (which implies 'text/plain').

If your 'file on disk' already can contain mail headers that the Java
routine correctly handles, add the line 'Content-Type: text/html'. (Do the
files have lines like "From: sender@example. com" or "To:
recipent@exampl e.com" followed by a blank line before the content of the
mail?)

Otherwise you have to ask your local Java/Oracle guy to modify the routine.


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[Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz]

Re: HTML in Outlook

In <1119965865.060 145.50800@o13g2 000cwo.googlegr oups.com>, on
06/28/2005
at 06:37 AM, amerar@iwc.net said:
[color=blue]
>Right now, the program simply creates a file on disk with all the
>HTML tags in it, and then uses a stored Java routine our Oracle
>database to send the email. But the email arrives with all the tags
>visible and no HTML.[/color]

That's as it should be; the Internet is not the WWW. The proper
language for e-mail is plain text ASCII text, or properly labelled
text in another character set. The recipient might be using e-mail
software that does not recognize inappropriate HTML or might have
disabled the rendering of HTML for security reasons.
[color=blue]
>How can we do this?[/color]

You can't. Render the message as text before you send it.
[color=blue]
>How is it different from typing in an email in
>Outlook, and then going and changing the font color or size?[/color]

It isn't; that's not appropriate for e-mail either. You should only do
that if you know that the recipient has software compatible with
lookout's proprietary formats.

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