Re: Best way to email html?

FROM : Andrew Farmer
DATE : Mon Dec 13 19:20:14 2004

On 13 Dec 2004, at 08:32, Steve Sheets wrote:
> Ok, I know we had addressed this issue over and over, regarding best
> way to send EMail from within a program. One can use Mailto URL,
> Applescript to Mail, internal Mail API, or other 3rd Party Mail SDKs.
> However, I never heard what would be the best method to send Email
> that contains HTML (specifically Tags for links & text styles).


Don't.

HTML mail is generally considered harmful.

Mail.app - I don't know about other programs - will automatically
interpret any string that looks like a URI as one (example:
http://foo.bar.baz/), so you don't need to do anything special for
that.

Text styles? Well, you can do those without HTML as well - try sending
a message with bold text like this, for example, and read the source of
the resulting message.

> Can the Mail program send HTML at all? I know it can receive HTML, but
> never seen example of it sending?


It will send HTML if you force it to. However, it generally tries to do
the Right Thing and uses any alternative available.