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Q: How to send html newsletter via Mail app

I want crystal and clear instruction as all the ones I have found either old fashioned and not relevant or skip that interesting part.

 

I have already done html page (newsletter). Now I want to transform it somehow and send via Mail app so my contacts could receive it as html newsletter. If I need to attach txt message please add it to the instruction. I need complete how to send html newsletter.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 12, 2013 1:04 AM

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  • by clintonfrombirmingham,

    clintonfrombirmingham clintonfrombirmingham Jan 12, 2013 1:23 AM in response to alabanco
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    Jan 12, 2013 1:23 AM in response to alabanco

    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

  • by alabanco,

    alabanco alabanco Jan 12, 2013 2:26 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham
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    Jan 12, 2013 2:26 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham

    That's what I expected to happen. I don't need mailchimp and campaign things and all the other staff. I need to send newsletter from my mail.app application. If I needed mailchimp I wouldn't ask for Mail.app

     

    I also wrote that I had already coded the html page. The tons of information was written about how to make html page but not how to send html newsletter. the step I asked for.

  • by clintonfrombirmingham,

    clintonfrombirmingham clintonfrombirmingham Jan 12, 2013 2:27 AM in response to alabanco
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    Jan 12, 2013 2:27 AM in response to alabanco

    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

  • by alabanco,

    alabanco alabanco Jan 12, 2013 2:46 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham
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    Jan 12, 2013 2:46 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham

    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.

  • by BobTheFisherman,

    BobTheFisherman BobTheFisherman Jan 12, 2013 7:22 AM in response to alabanco
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    Jan 12, 2013 7:22 AM in response to alabanco

    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.

  • by alabanco,

    alabanco alabanco Jan 12, 2013 7:48 AM in response to BobTheFisherman
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    Jan 12, 2013 7:48 AM in response to BobTheFisherman

    That's not what I want. I want to send newsletter to subscribers via Google Groups. I don't want mailchimp. All I want is to make simple newsletter like smashing magazine and send it via mail app that will send it to google group contacts. that's all

     

    attached pdf - is a pure evil as it will make message bigger. This is exactly what i have right now and what I want to drop.

     

    So the thing is how to make email message from html page that has css style inside or at least the one that smashing magazine has. Should it have the same page on the server?

  • by alkimac,

    alkimac alkimac May 22, 2013 6:20 PM in response to alabanco
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    May 22, 2013 6:20 PM in response to alabanco

    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.

  • by mnorton,

    mnorton mnorton May 25, 2013 12:59 PM in response to alabanco
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    May 25, 2013 12:59 PM in response to alabanco

    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.

  • by etresoft,Helpful

    etresoft etresoft May 25, 2013 1:09 PM in response to mnorton
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    May 25, 2013 1:09 PM in response to mnorton

    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.

  • by bonnyface,

    bonnyface bonnyface Jul 11, 2013 11:39 AM in response to etresoft
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    Jul 11, 2013 11:39 AM in response to etresoft

    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.

  • by Joseph Paschke,

    Joseph Paschke Joseph Paschke Mar 25, 2014 9:49 AM in response to etresoft
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    Mar 25, 2014 9:49 AM in response to etresoft

    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?

  • by Ralph Johns (UK),

    Ralph Johns (UK) Ralph Johns (UK) Mar 25, 2014 2:40 PM in response to Joseph Paschke
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    Mar 25, 2014 2:40 PM in response to Joseph Paschke

    Hi,

     

    File Menu in Safari > Mail Contents of this Page

     

     

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  • by Razzel,

    Razzel Razzel May 22, 2014 12:02 AM in response to etresoft
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    May 22, 2014 12:02 AM in response to etresoft

    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??

  • by Bill Mullen,

    Bill Mullen Bill Mullen Jun 5, 2014 2:53 PM in response to etresoft
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    Jun 5, 2014 2:53 PM in response to etresoft

    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?

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