HTML newsletter - correct technique?

Hi!

I'm looking for a technical primer regarding programming correct HTML
newsletters. E.g. I remember reading about inline jpegs to avoid
attachment problems and the like :-)

Thanks for your hints / links and ideas.

Best regards,
Martin

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<8cf2f00d-cdfe-4772-8581-bbd0ca94c40b (AT) q27g2000prf (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
Andreas Müller <hufflehuffle (AT) west (DOT) de> wrote:

Hi!

I'm looking for a technical primer regarding programming correct HTML
newsletters. E.g. I remember reading about inline jpegs to avoid
attachment problems and the like :-)

It sounds like you want to e-mail html-formatted newsletters to
people, complete with graphics.

My suggestion is, don't. Instead, send your subscribers a short
text paragraph together with a link to the newsletter, which would
be somewhere on your web server. That way, subscribers who don't
like to use the same program for e-mail and web browsing are happy,
and you reduce the risk that your newsletters will get flagged as
spam by content filters.

Personally, I hate getting html newsletters, and I have my
e-mail client set to not display images at all (linked,
attached, or inline).

On 4/3/2008 6:59 AM, Andreas Müller wrote:

Hi!

I'm looking for a technical primer regarding programming correct HTML
newsletters. E.g. I remember reading about inline jpegs to avoid
attachment problems and the like :-)

Thanks for your hints / links and ideas.

Best regards,
Martin

Compose the newsletter as a Web page and upload it to a Web server.
Then send a brief E-mail message to your subscribers with the link to
the Web page. This way, you can keep all prior issues available. Then,
when you have a new article that updates something from a prior issue,
you can put a link in the new article to the prior article.

As for sending HTML-formatted E-mail, see my
<http://www.rossde.com/ASCII_mail.html>.

--
David Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

Have you been using Netscape and now feel abandoned by AOL?
Then use SeaMonkey. Go to <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/>.

Hello, Davids :-)

Thanks to both of you for your for your advice, which I will follow.

Best regards,
Andreas

On 3 Apr, 19:38, David Stone <no.em... (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Personally, I hate getting html newsletters, and I have my
e-mail client set to not display images at all (linked,
attached, or inline).

HTML-only (evil, and a common mark of phishing spam) isn't the same
thing as properly-coded multipart HTML + plaintext.

I'll happily read a HTML + plaintext email, even if I only ever read
the plaintext. It's HTML-only that goes straight into the killfile.