Newsletter - emails

[XDakotaX]

Hi all,

I'm looking to send my clients, monthly newsletter emails.

From newsletters I have received from various companies, they have their actualy site present in the email.

Like an iframe.

I have been messing around sending coding to myself to try and get this to work but all i receive is the coding itself even with Rich Text HTML options enabled.

where am i going wrong?

[putts]

what are you using to send the emails?

Just hand-typing them or some server-side language (ASP,PHP,etc.)?

[XDakotaX]

Hi There,


Thanks for the response. The newsletters will be done by hand rather than script. Unless anyone could recommend something?

I have been using Outlook to do some testing but no joy as yet.

[KWJams]

A hyperlink inserted in an email is usually treated as an attachment which if it came to my address and I did not recognize the sender I would delete it.
Is that something you are willing to risk?

[XDakotaX]

Hi there,

Well companies that I have previously bought from usually send some sort of newsletter in this sort of Iframe way.

As I have bought from them before I recognise who it is from and open it as it usually contains products that interest me.

I am after sending newsletters just to my previous and current clients.

[KWJams]

You will be dependent on the option settings on each persons email program.

Example:
I receive email newsletters from my Senator which includes pictures and links with no problem.
I also receive by email a newsletter from my Congressman which will not display the included pictures or hyper-links in Outlook Express.
What the difference is I am not sure since I never looked at the properties and both are listed in my address book approved sender list.

Sorry that I could not be more helpful.

[XDakotaX]

thats ok bud, thanks for trying. I still havent really had any success in finding a solution to this, maybe I should just email the next company that sends me a newsletter and as them how they did it lol!

I looked into the message source of some of these newsletters i receive in outlook they seem to have a failsafe as you guys outlined above if html will not display in the users client.

In message source they have:

--======1111192735672======
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Then all the newsletter written like an email, further down the source code they have:

--======1111192735672======
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Following this the html of the email, which displays their site in some sort of Iframe or they have attached the front page of their site in there as the links all seem to work.