Sending an html page as an email in Entourage

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davegude

I have a beginner's question about composing html pages for use (as a
company newsletter) in emails.

I have composed an html page in Adobe GoLive 6 but I can't figure out
how to import it into my Entourage:mac vX program and send it,
graphics and all, as an email. I read a tutorial at the Adobe site:

http://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=42&xml=glv6htmlmail

that says:

"To send the message from ... Entourage in Mac OS, use "Send
Complex HTML," a free script
available on Apple's Web site."

But I have searched the Apple site and found no reference to this
script.

I have figured out how to reference my html page, which I have
uploaded to my website, as a text link in the email message. But I
want it to load up and appear in all it's glory right there in the
email.

What have I missed here?
 
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davegude

You won't be able to use Send Complex HTML X since you have graphics (unless
you upload them to a server and reference them in the HTML that way). You
should try my Send Complex HTML with Inline Files 2004, available from
http://homepage.mac.com/robbuckley/HTML2004.html

There's a link to Send Complex HTML X there as well.
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Thanks, Rob. Since I asked my question, but before I read your answer
above, I did search my way to the download of "Send Complex HTML X",
and I have used it successfully (I did upload my html page and
graphics to my website). However, your answer interests me. Can you
explain in layman's terms why I might want to use your script instead?
Thank you most kindly. -Dave
 
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davegude

Thanks again for your previous help, Rob.

I have run your script to send a test version of our company
newsletter. I sent it to myself (on my Mac with Entourage X) and it
worked great. I sent it to my home computer (PC with AOL) and it
worked, although I had to click a button on the email's window to
"view images". Any way, that worked. But here at work I sent the thing
off to coworkers and it bombed. The recipients all use Macs, and some
use Mac Mail, others Entourage (Entourage 2001 in one case). They all
got an error message:
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not
understand this format, some or all of this message may not be
legible.
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and the source code as the rest of their message.

I didn't place any text in the body of my email, so I don't know if
they would get that instead of the error message. But of course I want
to sent out the complex html, not plain text, to more or less
everyone, including my boss and coworkers, as well as our client list.

Can you tell what do I need to do to overcome this problem?

Dave
 
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davegude

I looked into my problem further and found that if I do add a text
message into the body of the email, the complex html message does get
received (and believe me, I do feel completely jazzed to have gotten
this far) in all but one circumstance: two of my coworkers have system
9 Macs with Entourage X. For them, it still comes out as source code
only. (I sent the complex html using Entourage X on my 10.2.8 Mac).

Any ideas for sending the complex html to system 9 Macs with Entourage
X?

Should I worry about other specific computers/mail programs that might
have this same problem (displaying only the source code)?

Thankfully,

Dave
 
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davegude

Rob Buckley said:
Are you using the latest version which I released yesterday (0.3.0)?
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Rob,

Thank you so much for all your help. I downloaded and ran your version
0.3.0 today and I can now successfully send my test newsletter in
complex html to all my coworkers, including the two with system 9 Macs
and Entourage X—although I seem to have solved the problem with those
two (not sure how) using the previous version. I do know that I only
started to get general success when I included a text message in the
body of the email. FRIENDLY SUGGESTION: Perhaps you could stress the
importance of placing a text message in the body of the email (rather
than leaving it blank) in your website or READ ME info.

Do you have update emails you send out about new versions of your
script? If so, please include me.

Thank You Again Most Kindly,

Dave
 
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exch-test

I know this is crazy but we are a Mac predominant office and have been
looking for 4 years for a competent alternative to our legacy companywide
Contacts and Calendars (real oldies but GREAT - publishers went belly up
years ago but they keep rolling along in Classic)

So we have a demo Exchange Server set up. I've gotten calendars to be
delegated the way we want them (set-up in Outlook) but can't get shared
contacts to work.

I need every user to see all contacts of every category - is this too much
to ask?

I've worked with an Exchange consultant and Microsoft's paid support but
have yet to have it work.

It can't be hard (or am I naive).

The MS tech had me working through delegation but that results in contacts
being categorized by user (eg: steve's data). I gather that using a public
folder is a better way to go but while I have copied the contacts in
question to a Contacts object in a public folder, I can't get the Entourage
Addressbook to work with it.

Thanks
G
 
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