Generating HTML mail messages for Outlook

[bming]

In Microsoft Word I can create a web page -a page with active content - hotlinks , colours etc and from Word e-mail it. The recepient will read it from Outlook and will see in the Body of their e-mail a web page -not a screen full of HTML.

Within outlook you can view source -What I am trinig to do is generate the page programatically (the reality is I want to create the page within Lotus Notes - e-mailing the page to the uses -content varies for every user.

By viewing source - pasting the result to a text file - then using this text file as the body of an e-mail message sent by Lotus notes what a user sees when he opens up the message in OUTLOOK is a screen full of HTML code - not the web page. There seems to be no way of displaying the e-mail as the HTML document within OUTLOOK.

The output from the mail send in Word must be more than the source one sees when you view the source code of the resultant mail. There must be sometihng that triggers Outlook to display the Body of the message as a web page and NOT raw HTML

What it is I do not konw. Can someone help please

[oink]

Kinda lost me as to what you are trying to accomplish.

[bming]

I want to create an e-mail that when viewed the body displays as a HTML page - like a web page. As I explained you can do this in Word. Create a web page, send it . When the user opens up the e-mail he sees a web page in the body of the message, not plain text source code.

At the moment if I send the source code in the body of the message via Lotus Notes what I see when I open up the message is the plain text source code. The same result you would get if you typed the source code of a web page into a new meesage and sent it to someone - the recepient would see the source code you type - not the web page it creates (dump the text in the body to a html file then open up with Internet Explorer and you see the web page result.

l know Outlook displays this because I can do it using Word. You must need to change a header or something. Word must do this automatically.

[oink]

Not a clue, as I have no interest. I hate getting even regular fancy email and have turned it off. All I ever see is the plain text, even when sent fancy style outlook and outlook express mails. Why not send an attachment and offer it to the recipient to open if they wish.

[Ned Seagoon]

Hi Bming

How it displays depends on information in the header.

I also hate getting e-mail that contains all this extra stuff. It increases my download and clogs my mailbox. I really prefer a text only message. Some organisations that send regular e-mails offer the option of the type of format that I can receive, those that don't who send these fancy e-mails, I usually end up unsubscribing.

Consider this when you decide to send these type of e-mails. BF

[bming]

These e-mails are going to internal users only. The attachment idea is used elsewhere is our system but to get over the problem this time i thought I would use Outlooks web page display abilities. Can you give me some clues.