Is there a way to easily create an HTML e-mail using Freeway?
It will most likely contain images, too.
My main mail app is Thunderbird, if that makes any difference.
Thanks.
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Perfect. Thanks.
I assume I can use Firefox, View Page Source, and copy out of that to replace the Safari steps…
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Depends on your mail program if you’re going to do a cut and paste. It’s worth doing the Safari steps for the best chance of Apple Mail understanding what you’re trying to do. Plus it doesn’t get much easier to just click a menu item and select one option and BAM! it’s there.
(It’s almost lunch time so forgive the Emeril line.)
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As a test, I tried going to a page from one of our sites, going into Firefox and going to View Source. Then, copied that into Thunderbird’s Insert>HTML, but the progress bar just sits there forever and never finishes.
So, not sure if the page I’m trying to use is just too big or what.
I would be sending from Thunderbird, so I don;t think the Safari method works, as it only seems to work with Apple’s Mail client.
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Sometime around 25/8/08 (at 12:17 -0400) Robert Bovasso said:
I assume I can use Firefox, View Page Source, and copy out of that
to replace the Safari steps…
Er, no. That’s a specific feature of Safari, it isn’t the same as
copying the source code. Use Safari.
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So, the magic question is, how, using Freeway and Thunderbird, can I make an html email?
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Well, I’ve looked around the Net a bit and the only instructions I see are to paste the code through the Insert HTML menu in the mail client.
I’ve tried it with Thunderbird and Netscape mail and neither seem to work. The mail just hangs there and doesn’t go.
I don;t use Safari or Mail, so how else does the rest of the planet create these?
I know it’s not a Freeway topic, but I could use some help if anyone on here has done that before.
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Sometime around 27/8/08 (at 10:22 -0400) Robert Bovasso said:
I don;t use Safari or Mail, so how else does the rest of the planet
create these?
I use Safari and Firefox. I hardly use Mail at all - but I do if I
want to make a rich HTML-formatted email.
Listen, why not try the Safari/Mail process? I can honestly say that
it will be a lot easier than the processes you’re trying now, and
unless you’ve actually thrown those apps away (which is generally not
a good idea) you already have them sitting on your hard drive.
Don’t worry, you won’t be sucked into using Mail for anything else -
and hell, a browser’s just a browser, right? I use Safari by personal
preference, but I also use Firefox because I like certain browser
plugins.
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Thanks, Keith.
But do I have to set up Mail as I would Thunderbird as my mail client? Safari says I have to have Mail as my default client.
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Sometime around 27/8/08 (at 10:41 -0400) Robert Bovasso said:
But do I have to set up Mail as I would Thunderbird as my mail
client? Safari says I have to have Mail as my default client.
Ah. Good point well made.
You would have to set Mail to be the default client for as long as it
takes to pick the File > Mail Contents of This Page menu item in
Safari. That’s done in Mail’s preferences (I know, a really
provincial approach to handling default app prefs), so you’d need to
set it there, go to Safari and pick that menu item, then once back in
Mail set your preferred mail client to Thunderbird once more.
Slightly more to do than I originally promised, and I apologise for
being so glib. But it is still a pretty damn smooth ride compared to
older methods.
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Thanks again, Keith.
I tried a Firefox Add On, was wasn’t too happy with it. I’ll see if my co-worker wants to give this a whirl.
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Sometime around 27/8/08 (at 10:57 -0400) Robert Bovasso said:
I tried a Firefox Add On, was wasn’t too happy with it.
Heh. I haven’t tried anything in Firefox to do that. My favourite
Firefox plugin is Hyperwords (http://www.hyperwords.net). When I’m
researching stuff online, using that is like going from a
black-and-white 1950s TV to a wall-sized HD 1080p screen. Information
has never felt so close; my fingertips have never felt so powerful!
Best of luck with the Mail thing.
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Thanks for the tip…and the good luck wish!
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On 27 Aug 2008, at 16:03, Keith Martin wrote:
My favourite
Firefox plugin is Hyperwords (http://www.hyperwords.net)
But where do you get it? The site doesn’t seem to have a download, the
Firefox site hasn’t heard of it …
best wishes,
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My favourite
Firefox plugin is Hyperwords (http://www.hyperwords.net)But where do you get it?
There’s a big ‘install now’ button on that home page…
the Firefox site hasn’t heard of it
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=hyperwords&cat=all
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On 27 Aug 2008, at 22:29, Keith Martin wrote:
There’s a big ‘install now’ button on that home page…
… which takes you to the Firefox download page; I already have
Firefox; when I do a search for the plugin on the Firefox site, I get
no results?
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It takes you to
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1941
Where there is a green “Add to Firefox” button
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Just a quick note about Thunderbird and pasting HTML.
For the last few versions, Thunderbird attempts to embed all images by default. This can often lead to a spinning beachball for long periods of time.
In order for you to use absolute links you will need to do a global find and replace in the source code before pasting into Thunderbird.
To maintain all of your absolute links, change all you img src from:
img src="
to this
img moz-do-not-send=“true” src="
Hope this helps.
P.S. How do you past code snippets properly into this forum?
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Thanks for the tip.
After endless searching, I did discover that the only way to send a web page in an email is to alter the code as you say.
Here’s what I changed and it seemed to work:
src=" to src="http://www.mywebaddress.com/
and
href=" to href="http://www.mywebaddress.com/
Worked fine in Thunderbird and Netscape.
The only “problem” is I have to do my editing in Netscape because that’s the only app I have that has a Find and Replace function.
I was hoping FW did, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to see your source code.
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