How to send HTML newsletter by email

Windows XP
Mozilla 1.7.6

Newsletter consists of html text and gif images.

Newsletter is on my web site.

I have been copying the html file from my html editor
(CoffeeCup) and pasting it into the Mozilla compose window.

Some times this works and some times it does not.

 

Welcome to the Forum, Vince Gale!

Vince,

Have you tried this:

Right click anywhere on the Newsletter
Select: Send page

The link to your Newsletter should appear in the Message pane of an outgoing email.

Let us know if you are able to do this...

 

Hi, I'm Vince's webmaster. I'm stumped on this, so if you have any ideas that would be great.

The problem, from what I can tell, is that the images aren't resolving properly. We get image boxes with the little broken picture link.

I cannot tell by looking at the HTML source what the images resolve to. My two email clients (Gmail and Runbox, both types of webmail) save the attached images to the email company's server, and do not access the original image. Therefore any diagnostics I try to do while looking at the HTML source via email is useless.

I advised Vince to upload all the images to his website (mboservices.net) under a subdirectory. Then, when designing the newsletter, I told him to use absolute links to the remote images. This way, any problem with name resolution could be avoided.

It is difficult to duplicate Vince's system as I use Linux ... sorry Windows people!

If anyone can give advice on this, we'd appreciate it lots.

Also, Ramona's previous solution did not work, unfortunately.

 

Welcome to the Forum, woodsy934!

woodsy934,

If you could give us the link to Vince's Newsletter, it would be very helpful, as I could then duplicate what he's trying to do It would also be most helpful to look at his page source.

Thanks!

 

Thanks, I appreciate it.

http://www.mboservices.net/news-ltrs/

You will see an apache directory list of everything that is in that folder.

 

Woodsy,

Thanks for the link, and I believe some of the problem is in the location of the images. The first image in the Newsletter lists this image source location:
ftp://mboservices.net/news-ltrs/NEWSLETTER/LAB-LTRHD-061005.jpg

The actual location of the image is here:
http://www.mboservices.net/news-ltrs/images/LAB-LTRHD-061005.jpg

The images are in a separate folder, (images) and not in the NEWSLETTER folder. Therefore, the image source is incorrect, and not pointing to the appropriate location.

I hope this will be helpful!