[ale] CSS And HTML mail

Thu Jun 28 10:35:12 EDT 2007

Why do you hate your clients?
-jt

James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com

>>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:12 AM, in message
<1183039951.18747.26.camel at shuttle.linxdev.com>, Christopher Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote: 
> I'm using Evolution to test sending HTML mail to email clients.  Does
> Evolution process CSS correctly?  Should I even use CSS?
> 
> Here is a sample that I've received:
> 
> --====1183038967====
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
>  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8">
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <TABLE border="1">
>  <TR>
>  <TD style="font-weight: bold;" color="#000000">Buffer Contents of:
> Meridian_Opt.11</TD>
>  </TR>
>  <TR>
>   <TD><TEXTAREA cols="80" rows="25" style="color: white;
> background-color: black">NO DATA!</TEXTAREA></TD>
>  </TR>
> </TABLE>
> </BODY>
> 
> The Buffer Contents... text is not bold.  I've tried adding the CSS
> directly into <STYLE> but that failed too.  It also seems like if I have
> errors on the HTML that evolution will not even attempt to render it.  I
> get an email but nothing is displayed in those cases.
> The test area is also not colored.  I guess Evoltuion ignores that stye?
> 
> 
> 
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