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How to send HTML email with styles in rails

I want to know how we can send webpage (HTML page) as an email. I want to add style in a html page like Images or some table formatting. I want to know that should I add style in my "conta.text.html.erb" or I can add CSS in it? ...

How do I format an email for Gmail?

I'm sending out an email using CodeIgniter's built in library. All I'm trying to do is send a bolded string, but instead of rendering the tags, it is printing them. What I have: <html> <head> </head> <body> <b>Donkey</b> </body> </html> That is, character for character, the email I'm getting. Why aren't the tags rendering? ...

What's the best way to center your HTML email content in the browser window (or email client preview pane)?

I normally use CSS rules for "margin:0px auto" along with a 960 container for my standard browser based content. But I'm sorta new to HTML email creation and I've got the following design that I'd like to now center in the browser window without standard CSS. http://static.helpcurenow.org/mockups/emails/2010/may-survey/survey.html I se...

Trying to send XML via EMail and the XML includes a byte[]

Hello All, I want to send an email that has a machine readable part you cut and paste into an asp.net page and you get the information. I have stored all the information in an object and then used an XMLSerizer to create some xml. It all worked fine until I added some Images as byte[] to the object. If I dump the resulting string to ...

Replace Emails and HREFS with enclosing HREFS

I have an Email body that used to be plain text, but now I've made it HTML. The emails are generated using a number of methods and none of them are easy to convert. What I have is: Some content [email protected], some http://www.somewebsite/someurl.aspx. What I'd like to do is create a function that automatically encloses a...

HTML email: tables or divs?

Does the HTML/CSS for an html email newsletter need to be in table format, or can I use DIVs with equal assurance it will display well cross email-client? I've downloaded a number of templates to see how they're done, upon which to base my own, and they all seem to use tables. Any insight much appreciated, thanks! ...

Is there a difference between plain text emails, and multipart emails with only plain text?

I'm using Rails to send emails and I just want to send a plain text email (there is no corresponding HTML part). I've noticed that if I just have one file named email.text.plain.erb it actually generates a multipart email with one part (the plain text part) like this: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=mimepart_4c04a2d34c4bb...

.NET Generate email text in Outlook from Word

I am attempting to generate the body of an email in Outlook 2007 from the text of a Word 2007 document in VB. I have access to both the Word and Outlook object libraries, and I can read from the Word document to get a string and write it to Outlook, but I need to keep the formatting from the Word document intact. The purpose will be to...

Get HttpResponse from a page in the same web application

I have the following code: HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://mycomputer/myWebApp/WebPage2.aspx"); myHttpWebRequest.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials; HttpWebResponse myHttpWebResponse = HttpWebResponse)myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse(); The last line...

Trouble sending html in email with Pony gem

Hi, I've found this gem to be a great and easy way to send mail but I can't seem to send any html in it. If I write the following: Pony.mail( :to => message[:to], :from => @account[:from], :subject => message[:subject], :content_type => 'text/html', :html_body => "<h1>hey there!</h1>", :via => :smtp, :smtp => { :host ...

HTML email guide

I am not new to HTML/CSS, although I have never created a HTML email before. Are there any nice online resources I can look at to learn from? What do I have to take into consideration when it comes to email clients? Do they display HTML/CSS content differently like browsers? (IE problems etc.) I am not even sure where the HTML/CSS ...

Embedding image in email in Android

Is it possible to programatically embed an image in the body of an email sent by the Mail app in Android? Can I use the ACTION_SEND intent to do this, or should I compose the email myself? ...

is it possible to send email as xml data with xslt?

Hi All, is it possible to send user and email in xml format that is formatted using xslt styles? ...

html emails - problem with <button> inside <a> tags ?

The following looks fine but when i test it in gmail, it opens the link twice (in 2 new tabs), it's as if there's some kind of wierd event bubbling happening.... <a href="some_url"> <button>Approve</button> </a> am i missing something obvious? ...

Sending HTML email in django

In my project I've added a newsletter feed. But when trying to send emails with this function : def send(request): template_html = 'static/newsletter.html' template_text = 'static/newsletter.txt' newsletters = Newsletter.objects.filter(sent=False) subject = _(u"Newsletter") adr = NewsletterEmails.objects.all() fo...

How to use the Zend Framework partial view helper outside of a controller or view?

I would like to create a custom class that will generate an HTML email. I want the content of the email to come from an "email view scripts" directory. So the concept will be that I can create an HTML email view script the same way I would create a normal view script (being able to specify class variables, etc), and the view script would...

Sending a HTML email with a midi file that needs to play automatic on open

I'm trying to accomplish the following, I'm sending a HTML email using PHP Mailer that reads a html file and embedding a midi file within the HTML file, and it then sends out the email and then the midi file should start playing automatically once the email is opened, is this possible, since it does not seem to work, I'm using Evolution ...

ActionMailer, HTML emails and DOCTYPE

I noticed that the examples in the Rails 3 Action Mailer Basics guide use HTML5 doctype tag <!DOCTYPE html> for HTML emails. Older Rails 2 guide examples use Transitional doctype. As far as I know, HTML emails must use the most basic, old-style HTML code with some deprecated tags, so various email clients display it properly. This sugges...

Trying to get rid of horzontal and vertical white spaces in HTML E-Mail.

Hello, I have been trying to create a HTML E-mail, which is just one image that I sliced up using Fireworks CS4. When looking at it in IE, Opera, and Firefox the actual image looks fine. However as soon as I import it into Microsoft Outlook 2007, I end up with a horizontal white spaces below the top image (WinstonsAd_r1_c1), and a ver...

How to view a rails email from a url

As one tiny part of making authoring html emails less painful, I'd like to be able to view what I'm making without sending it to myself. This will also help later, with an "Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser!" link. I'm working with Rails 3 (thus far ActionMailer 3.0 is a delight) and have an email model called "Not...