Sending out an HTML email

[Amida]

Hi Guys

I advertising company designed an email for us that is going to be used as a RSVP type of thing.

It's in HTML format with a folder called images that includes all the pictures.

How do I send it out?

 

[Syzygy78]

How many people do you need to send the email to?

 

[Arthur]

Depends.

The graphics in the \images folder probably need to to be uploaded to your website so they can be called by the html email when the recipients open their mail. The links must be hardcoded into the email's html, so your ad company must tell you where exactly the images must reside.

Once that's clarified and images uploaded and available to http, send a test email to youself or someone inside your org and check that all graphics from the internet are correctly loaded into the email.

Then send to your distrib list as normal (using BCC field).

 

[Amida]

It is going to be quite a few people.

Thanks Arthur. I'll make sure the info is available on a HTTP server.

How do I import the html file into outlook thou I don't see a way or do you send it as an attachement?

 

[kayvee]

Also remember a lot of people also disable html content in their incoming email, so it should be tested for this aswell.

 

[Syzygy78]

You can embed HTML content into a microsoft outlook express email. It is very easy. There are however limitations to this process. You can only send each email to at most 20 recipients and to at most 400 people per hour.

As Arthur said, you can host your images on a web server, but you can also embed them into your email. You shouldnt make your email more than 200KB in file size.

 

[ITCynic]

Why not convert the whole thing to a PDF?

Or put the whole thing on your web server and then display it in your browser. Then choose (IE) "send page by email" and send it to yourself. You then have the page as an email with the images and you can then send it to whomever you wish.

 

[Amida]

Why not convert the whole thing to a PDF?

Or put the whole thing on your web server and then display it in your browser. Then choose (IE) "send page by email" and send it to yourself. You then have the page as an email with the images and you can then send it to whomever you wish.

I've tried this but the buttons dissapear which the clients will use to make a choice.

 

[charlie_82]

It is going to be quite a few people.

Lol I also sent an emailer to quite a few people recently. Close to 1 million to be more specific!

So how many is quite a few people cos that's quite a relative term

 

[Amida]

Lol I also sent an emailer to quite a few people recently. Close to 1 million to be more specific!

So how many is quite a few people cos that's quite a relative term

So you were spamming?

I'd say a couple of hundred people.

 

[NetSpike]

Change the HTML of the images in your email to point to a website where the images have been uploaded.

When the reader opens the email (and his mail client doesn't block images), the images will be loaded from the referenced website in the HTML of the message.

Hope that helps.

 

[Amida]

Change the HTML of the images in your email to point to a website where the images have been uploaded.

When the reader opens the email (and his mail client doesn't block images), the images will be loaded from the referenced website in the HTML of the message.

Hope that helps.

Ok thanks got it. I will upload the images to a website. But how do I import the html code into a outlook email?

 

[Amida]

If anyone is looking for an answer to this. How I solved it was to upload the images to a webserver and then changed the links in the html email.

Then I used an application called group mail to send out the emails.