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Dreamweaver and email newsletters

Aug 4, 2005 3:58AM PDT

I am using Dreamweaver 7 MX2004 to create a newsletter. After completing the newsletter I previewed the document in IE and it looked great. I dropped the code into a listserv (one we pay for) to test it. The email was received but almost all the text formatting is gone.

I went back and replaced the styles coding on one part of the document with specific <font> size, color etc. I sent it again to myself and saw that the formatting stayed in place on that part of the text. Needless to say, changing all the text format codes would be labor intensive.

My question is: Can I create an email friendly html document with Dreamweaver? How? Or do I have to buy a different software program? Could changing my listserv service make a difference?

Thanks for your help.

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Just a fyi.
Aug 4, 2005 4:04AM PDT

The home and office email is stripped back to plain text to stop most spyware and other information leaking ploys. Some poor soul was wondering how we liked the spiffy emails but was surprised that we strip the emails. Their hours of work vanished in route.

Be sure your audience wants or uses it.

Bob

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Clarification
Aug 4, 2005 4:41AM PDT

Thank you for this. I don't think that my email is actually not being stripped to plain text since tables and cell colors are still there. Or do I misunderstand?

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Try a command line emailer.
Aug 4, 2005 5:34AM PDT

SENDMAIL.EXE is pretty easy to use and you can craft your email and look at the code to see where it falls apart.

Also, Outlook 6.0 has some settings for security that could cause such an effect. Cross site scripting, etc. You have to dig in to figure it out. On the surface with what's supplied the cause is not evident.

Bob