Embed HTML Code Into Mail?

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Embed HTML Code Into Mail?

Hi,

Is it possible to embed HTML code into an Apple Mail message? If it isn't, this would be a really useful feature. Lots of sites now, such as YouTube and Flickr, provide snippets of HTML code that you can copy and paste into your "webpage". But how useful would it be if you could paste this code directly into an e-mail? That way you could do things such as embed a YouTube video into an e-mail, rather than just provide a link to it.

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Posted on Apr 12, 2008 3:49 AM

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Answer 1

Guychi

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Jul 8, 2008 4:46 PM in response to Reuben Feffer

I second this question.

Any solution anyone?

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Answer 2

Jul 8, 2008 4:52 PM in response to Guychi

My Mail.app is set to use Rich Text.

I have tried sending a message like this:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<marquee>Hello</marquee>
</body>
</html>

However, it just comes back like that.

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Mulder

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Jul 8, 2008 7:05 PM in response to Reuben Feffer

You can do it, but it will not be the easiest thing, and it's generally frowned on, since HTML email is used by spammers and marketers to track whether or not you open their emails. It's much easier and more accepted to just send a link to something you want someone to see; not everyone has time time, patience, or affordable broadband to download a web page with an embedded video window.

You'd have to do the coding yourself, test it to be sure it works when sending and receiving, and then send it to everyone you want to see it. That's a lot of work for no real benefit. According to Apple, Mail in 10.5 allows the sending of HTML using the Stationery feature; have you tested that or checked the Help files for that to see how it's done?

Mulder

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pami_la

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Aug 18, 2008 12:18 PM in response to Reuben Feffer

use iMailist (free app)

or

just publish your html document to the internet (either using .mac or idisk or whatever). Open it in Safari and press Apple 'I' and that will "Mail the contents" of the webpage.

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jemdh

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Sep 10, 2008 8:16 AM in response to pami_la

Thanks pami_la for the tip - I just did that and got very excited when it instantly created the email....
errrr... but it left out all the images! It's a .htm file that I want to send out as a eNewsletter.
Help?

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Answer 6

Nov 12, 2008 6:16 AM in response to Reuben Feffer

Hi

I send newsletters via mail using htm files. I use quark to create a web page which I then export as a htm file, then upload the image folder it creates to my webspace (converting the img src coding in the htm file to read the new thread to the webspace), open the htm file in safari and choose file>mail contents of this page and away you go!

If you just want to embed a webpage then this works instantly from safari!

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