Re: Best way to email html?

FROM : Christopher Williams
DATE : Mon Dec 13 19:29:21 2004

Mozzilla will let you pasted source code into it's email.  Tiger is 
supposed to handle html composing in Mail (supposedly).

--chris

On Dec 13, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Andrew Farmer wrote:

> 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.
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