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)
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.
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.
While doable, a simpler way to send viewable HTML content via Mail.app is to open up your html file in Safari and press Shift+Control+T, and then send the page that way. The links, formatting and images all process this way. If you want to host images on the internet so that they are easily viewable in your HTML newsletter, my advice is to put them on Dropbox in the public folder, press 'Copy link for public sharing' and use that link in your code for your images. Everything then will be accessible.
A fairly tricky way to send HTML content with mail.app is
a) create a new signature (mail preferences)
b) edit the signature file (File is located here : ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Signatures/)
c) keep the header lines and delete the actual html content
d) Copy/paste new html content (<BODY> .... </BODY>)
If you have files/images in your content, you should host them on a website and use absolute links.
worked very well for me.
best regards.
You can send basic html without images by opening the html document in Safari then Edit > Select All, Edit > Copy then open up a blank email and paste the contents into it.
I'm sure it's too late for the OP, but thought I'd explain for other readers who look at this topic in the future. Using Safari to compose an email page for Mail will not work with local content stored on your Mac. The files must be on a remote server to be saved for email this way. So alabanco and Razzel need to stop insisting they have to send all their content through email, and put their page content on a server. It is not only faster for the mail client to to load from a server, but recipients don't have to download all your images within the email.
That's just the way it is, gang. Rent a web server, put up your newsletter content in a folder, and open the html page in Safari to make it sharable in an email. What's so hard about that?
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.
A couple of valuable sources I found related to this topic:
When using HTML, it's always useful to keep these factors in mind because there are always barriers to using HTML emails:
http://kb.mailchimp.com/campaigns/ways-to-build/about-html-email
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
Hi,
File Menu in Safari > Mail Contents of this Page
9:40 pm Tuesday; March 25, 2014
How to send html newsletter via Mail app
