html formatted email???

[mtran]

Hi,

I'm wondering if there's a way to send nicely formatted emails -- using html or the like-- that still keeps the same format when being opened by receivers regardless of email softwares the clients are using outlook, eudora, lotus notes, hotmail, yahoo,....

Thanks for your input. I'm completely clueless about this.

[djr33]

Some email clients simply don't support html. Most do, and especially most modern ones do.
Some users do disable this for security, though, and some clients do the same by default.

To send html, you need a header (for content-type I think) attached to the top of the email.

Google "email html header" and you should get what you need.

However, depending on how you are doing it, this can be a bit difficult.

Using php, for example, to automatically send emails allows the programmer to specify headers. In your average email client, that isn't possible. Many do have an option to "send as html" or the like.

[Twey]

that still keeps the same format when being opened by receivers regardless of email softwares the clients are using

The problem is not the software, but the rendering engine used to display the HTML. For example, Microsoft Outlook uses Trident, Internet Explorer's rendering engine; Thunderbird uses Gecko; web-based email systems will use the current browser.

To send html, you need a header (for content-type I think) attached to the top of the email.

Content-Type: text/html