Procedure for sending an email in Publisher

[Beth]

I am trying to use Publisher for the first time to send an email newsletter.
I have selected one of the templates and I was trying to send it to myself as
a test.

When I typed my email address and hit "send" I received an error message
from Outlook Express. It said "Access to the account was denied. Verify
that your username and password are correct. Account: Hotmail, Server:
http://services.msn.com/hotmail/httpmail.asp', Protocol: HTTPMail, Server
Response: Bad Password, Port: 0, Secure (SSL): No, Error Number 0x800CCC32

I would greatly appreciate some guidance. I only have one password for my
hotmail account, and that's that password I typed. So, I don't have any idea
why it indicated "bad password." Am I missing a step? I thought the
Publisher email system was as simple as creating email design and sending to
whomever you would like.

Beth

 

[Chuck Davis]

There are several problems here.
1. Publisher documents cannot be in the message. They can only be attached.
2. Of course, there is an exception; your Publisher document that is only
one page can be sent by choosing Send E-mail on the File drop down menu and
the click on Send this page as a message. Note the words "this page." Only
one page can be sent in this manner. The page is converted to an image.
3. Attached Publisher documents may be extremely large. They cannot be
opened by the recipient, unless they also have Publisher.
4. It would be best to "print" it to a pdf and attach so that all may read
it. http://www.primopdf.com or http://www.win2pdf.com

 

[DavidF]

Chuck,

I am curious...why do you keep saying that when you send a page as a message
that it is sent as an image? It can be sent as an image, or HTML. Go to
Tools > Options > Web tab and untick or tick "Send entire Publication as
single JPG image".

I don't understand.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Perhaps try sending the message via Outlook Express and through your ISP
servers, instead of hotmail.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Whoops! Perhaps I just answered my own question. I just tested it again, and
it does not work for a print document, even after changing the setting, or
even after changing that document to a web document. It works if you start
with a Email formatted document. If you want to test it yourself, File > New

Websites and E-mail > Email and choose Newsletter. Change the setting on

that, and it is send as HTML.

Sorry, my mistake.

DavidF

 

[Beth]

David:
Greatly appreciate your quick reply and guidance. Thanks very much.
Beth

 

[Beth]

Chuck:
Thank you so much for your guidance. It is greatly appreciated.
Beth

 

[Chuck Davis]

You're welcome!

Chuck:
Thank you so much for your guidance. It is greatly appreciated.
Beth

 

[Vinci]

DavidF,

be careful because since you send 500-1000, it works fine. But when the
recipients are more you could have a lot of problems:

- ISP blocking me (antispam rules)
- deliverability issues (recipients blocking me)
- not real control of the sending queue (if something goes wrong I do
not know how many messages are sent, and how many are not: risk to send
twice or more)
- unsubscription and bounces management

That's why I moved to an external provider. There are many around,
actually I work with http://www.mailupnet.com
It's totally self service, customizable and allows image embedding (I
send about 8000 enewsletters per week).

Vinci