Re: Cannot send "clean" HTML to MS Outlook on PC

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From: Paul Berkowitz (berkowit_at_spoof_silcom.com)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 08:10:54 -0700

On 8/5/04 7:54 AM, in article
krgraham-7EC065.10544805082004@comcast.dca.giganews.com, "Ken Graham"
<krgraham@mac.com> wrote:

> In article <BD36FD6D.6E875%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com>,
> Paul Berkowitz <berkowit@spoof_silcom.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Yes it can. I already told you that Rob Buckley's script will do that for
>> you.
>
> Thanks Paul, but unfortunately my testing confirms that this excellent
> script will NOT do what I want.
>
> Yes, it does take pure text and HTML code from a saved file and create a
> complex message which can be read on a PC.
>
> But NO, it does NOT maintain the "clean" HTML code I want to send.
> Instead it allows Entourage to create its own HTML version of the code!
> I did NOT view the page before sending, as warned in the read me file,
> yet my code was NOT transmitted without modifications.
>
> I tried both methods, but as expected they sent identical messages.
>
> Perhaps Adam can confirm whether my goal is indeed possible to
> accomplish with Entourage.

If you don't want to actually _display_ it in an email client but just
preserve its purity for viewing in a browser (where HTML was designed for),
you'll need to send your HTML pages as attachments then and let the
recipient open them in a browser. Since Entourage does not claim to be able
to let you compose complex HTML, the scripts are tricks that try to get
around the restriction by triggering the HTML rendering engine. You can
hardly expect an application that is not designed to send complex HTML at
all to be able to send it perfectly, by tricks. If perfection matters, send
it as an attachment - stuffed if need be - or use an application designed
to compose complex HTML. On the Mac, I believe that Netscape does so, so
quite possibly all flavors of Mozilla do so. Use the tool for the job.
Entourage isn't it. 

-- 
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
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