How to send html newsletter via Mail app

A ton of Googled hits when searching for "html email" - this one -->> http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-code-html-emails - was the most informative I found.

I'm just two months into teaching myself HTML, CSS, etc., so I've never attempted HTML email. This site above seems to offer some good 'how-to's'...

Good luck,

Clinton

Did you try Googling at all? I found this - http://macosx.com/forums/howto-faqs/267402-howto-create-html-emails-using-apple- mail.html - but I don't think that you're really open to an help I might be able to provide...

Clinton

alabanco wrote:

thanks. Now we've got to the most interesting part and intriguing one. Why should I upload html page to the server. I do understand uploading the images to server which will be used as links in my html mail. But why and how should I store that page in my server if I have CMS post instead from which I used pictures as links. SHould I create yet another type of post in CMS that is my html newsletter? That's not cool. What is the industry standard approach for that?

By the way Mail.app uses that baby design templates for your messages. Why don't we have an option to delete all these creepy childish templates and store solid bold corporate style templates for newsletters and send it somehow? Or will it just attach the images to the message then? If so then it is not what I want and it is really depressing.

The industry convention/"standard" is not to use html in email. Wheteher or not your html newsletter displays as you intended is at the mercy of the recipient and their email client settings.

If you want to preserve your html layout and styles, save your newsletter as a pdf document and attach the pdf document to your email. Or, as already suggested, use a web server to serve your html newsletter.

Maybe just stop trying to send html / newsletters from your mail.app and instead use a newsletter app. You can start with DirectMail - http://directmailmac.com/ . Just a thought.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird

Thunderbird mail app handles this natively.

From file menu -> Insert->Html.

Voila. HTML newsletter. No need to post it on a server somewhere. It's all done local.

Disregard the IT guys moaning about the HTML format. That's a crock. All marketing is through HTML newsletters now.

While Apple doesn't allow us to do this via Mail App I don't know. But thunderbird is the FREE solution to the problem.

mnorton wrote:

While Apple doesn't allow us to do this via Mail App I don't know. But thunderbird is the FREE solution to the problem.

Apple Mail has been able to do this for years.

1. Open the newsletter in Safari

2. Click the Share button

3. Choose "Email this page"

4. In the new message, make sure "Send Web Content As" is set to "Web Page"

Apple Mail is also free and, unlike Thunderbird, still under active development.

BINGO! And so simple.

I couldn't use Thunderbird because I needed to use an Exchange email account. As it turns out, this is easier anyway. 🙂

But I didn't think that Safari would be the answer to my email challenge.

I've been trying to do this as well and saw this technique. But I do not see a "Share" button in my Safari. Is there a way to do thjis in Leopard?

Hi,

File Menu in Safari > Mail Contents of this Page

9:40 pm Tuesday; March 25, 2014

Hmm.. When I share the email the images show up. When I recieve the email the image boxes have qns marks in them but the links still work? Any idea's??

I have tried to email my web page - but I have encountered the same problem as Razzel. when I share the page in email - it all looks good, background, pictures etc are all good - when I receive it, the email does not have background or pictures, only text... how do I get it to include these in the mail?

Bob, I agree entirely with your comments. Create your document, save it as a pdf, then Mail is as an attachment either using Acrobat Mail as an attachment, or Apple's Mail, File, Attach Files.