Q: insert a table in a mail
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Aug 14, 2013 9:01 AMby fmontrelay,Csound1 wrote:
fmontrelay wrote:
Unfortunately, though you may be right, receipt if often needed for legal reasons.
That being said, I don't see why Apple should rule how I send emails.
They don't. You can use any OSX compatible mail client you choose to, pick a different one, one that has the facilities you need.
Yes, they do. Even in outlook, there is no receipt acknowledgement.
(but I have to say that I have given up Outlook for Mac long ago )
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Aug 14, 2013 9:05 AMby fmontrelay,BobTheFisherman wrote:
fmontrelay wrote:
Unfortunately, though you may be right, receipt if often needed for legal reasons.
That being said, I don't see why Apple should rule how I send emails. If they say this is for privacy reasons, I'l have a big laugh given everything they know about me (specially on my iPhone) and that I don't know they know.
If you need a receipt for legal reasons, the email read receipt will not do it. Even if an email client allows read receipt requests, it is totally within the control of the recipient whether or not they send the receipt. You have no control over read receipts even if your email client supports read receipts.
Bob... That being said, Giving your tendency to dismiss everything I say, I just suggest we leave it there.
You'll notice that even in this non-fancy thread manager, there is an advanced editor that allows you to insert tables. So, what I am mentioning is no rocket science. -
Aug 14, 2013 9:08 AMby Csound1,fmontrelay wrote:
Csound1 wrote:
fmontrelay wrote:
Unfortunately, though you may be right, receipt if often needed for legal reasons.
That being said, I don't see why Apple should rule how I send emails.
They don't. You can use any OSX compatible mail client you choose to, pick a different one, one that has the facilities you need.
Yes, they do. Even in outlook, there is no receipt acknowledgement.
(but I have to say that I have given up Outlook for Mac long ago )
So you searched 2 OSX mail clients and concluded that because they don't offer the function it is not possible?
You didn't try very hard did you.
Try PostBox, or Google for yourself (Apple & Microsoft are not the only vendors of OSX mail clients you know)
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Aug 14, 2013 10:03 AMby fmontrelay,You didn't try very hard did you.
Try PostBox, or Google for yourself (Apple & Microsoft are not the only vendors of OSX mail clients you know)
Csound1, now i am really interested. Not only because of receipts (a minor thing in my mind) but because I'm looking for a really good email client for the Mac.
I have tried
- Postbox (they claim they have a receipt function but it seems not to work. Once again, this is a minor thing. Here again, no real text editor and the signature formating does not work. This signature problem is well known and seems unsolved with both the Apple client and any other client. If you have a different view, I am happy to read your suggestions.
- Mozilla Thunderbird: same signature problems and very slow.
- Gmail / Google Apps for small enterprises (they host our company email system). This is kind of correct but the offline version is really weak. For a person like me who travels a lot, this is an issue.
- Outlook for Mac: An old version compared to the version for windows. Many functionalities missing.
Again, your views and suggestions are most welcome.
Rgds
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Aug 14, 2013 4:07 PMby BobTheFisherman,In these forums they provide a rich text editor. Many email clients provide the same thing. See this image.
See the formatting options. They look very similar to the options in this forum that created your table.
Now in this same email client I will create a table.
The points I am trying to make are:
1. Mail does not have this capability but you do not have to use Mail
2. Even if you/I send this email containing a table, the recipient has control over how the table is displayed if it is displayed at all.
Sorry My posts have not been of any value to you.
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Jun 30, 2015 3:16 PMby Crowly34,I hope by now you figured out, but just in case you didn't, usually Apple works better with it's native apps, (in this case numbers), try copy/paste your excel info on numbers, format it in case you don't like it, and you can copy the entire table on to mail, and from now on, if you can, use numbers.
Cheers!
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May 24, 2016 6:51 PMby Strolls,I know this is an old question, but it's currently top hit for "email table in mail.app", so I thought I'd update it to report that I've found another way to do this.
Make a table in Textedit (rich text mode), fill in the rows and columns you want, then save it, choosing "Web Page (html)" in the "File Format" drop-down.
Now use Safari to open the .html page you just created (i.e. by double-clicking it in Finder), highlight the table (I made sure there were a couple of blank lines before and after when I created it) and copy it to the clipboard. The table can now be pasted into Mail.app and it'll display correctly (in OS X 10.11 El Capitan).
If you open the .html page in a text editor you'll see a load of <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td> tags - if you know HTML you'll realise the implications of this.
