Does anyone know how to send complex html mail using Mail (Tiger
10.4.7)? I'll even settle for OE or Entourage! I'd like to use complex
html as a "signature" or "stationery" - and I used to be able to do
that via Outlook (PC), but my trusty mac apps don't give any sort of
decent option . . .

Thanks in advance!

Cheers!
Connie

--
C Pierce

In article <170720060206161952%cmpierce@NOSPAMcreativeveritas .com>,
CMP <cmpierce@NOSPAMcreativeveritas.com> wrote:

what's 'complex html'?

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:06:16 -0500, CMP
<cmpierce@NOSPAMcreativeveritas.com> wrote:

....email should be plain text, it should NEVER contain ANY
HTML...that's just askin to get fucked up the ass with a virus or
malware.

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Onideus Mad Hatter
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http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog


Hatter Quotes
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"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )

on 17/07/2006 8:06 am, CMP wrote:

Does Thunderbird do any of that?

Thunderbird does it and it works great....just copy and paste the HTML
code (but be sure any images or CSS are saved to a server and are
linked to, not embedded.)


amgine wrote:

Definitely.

Don't reference them to your local machine (/file://C:/Documents and
Settings/ etc etc). Put them on a web server and link to them there
(http://www.myserver.com/folder/image1.gif instead of
/file://C:/Documents and Settings/me/image1.gif).


inez wrote:

Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
I agree. The other thing I hate is page-long sigs full of recycled
quotes. ;-)

But in all honesty, HTML e-mail is the plague of my existence and I
strip it down to text whenever humanly possible. I also believe that
e-mail should follow a few simple plain text rules: don't exceed 80
columns of width, preceed your signature with two hyphens followed by a
space (which Thunderbird will do for you if you supply a signature file,
and which is the e-mail standard that is really no longer followed since
the advent of standards-destroying clients such as Outlook), bottom-post
in froups and lists (some people like the top-post business but I think
it destroys the continuity), and QUOTE WITH GREATER-THAN SYMBOLS. Most
clients will grudgingly handle different quote characters like vertical
pipes or what have you, but the standard is greater than symbols. One
for each level of quoting. Is that so hard?

I also absolutely hate it when people feel they need to add their own
ridiculous delimiter between what was said previously and what they are
adding. THE QUOTE CHARACTERS ALREADY MAKE THIS DISTINCTION. You don't
need to go like this:
------------------------
I totally agree with you, adding your own delimiters makes you look like
an illiterate newbie.

Also, booze froup specifically, it is polite to add a comment or
notation, typically between square brackets, when you cut out huge
sections of other people's posts in the middle. Something like

or even

would work. That is all. I know I'm a purist, and I don't usually rant
about it, but you caught me on a unique Friday morning and it seemed
relevant to the discussion.

To answer the OP, just don't. Seriously.

--
Aaron

"Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems
good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the
rest." -- John Stuart Mill