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29 Sep 2006, 2:12 AM
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HTML email in version 1.2- can it be done?

Our host's setup is stuck on ver. 1.2. Can i send html email from a ver. 1.2 store and if so, how?

Thanks,
Jim Lee

29 Sep 2006, 2:34 AM
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Re: HTML email in version 1.2- can it be done?

Yes. HTML email support was added in v1.2.0

  1. Admin->Configuration->Email Options->use MIME HTML when sending = true
  2. Each customer must select HTML or text-only format for receiving messages. Text is selected by default.
  3. The HTML-formatted emails are produced via templates in the /email folder of your site
  4. Documentation on how the HTML email infrastructure works is included in the /docs folder of your site and/or the zip you have of Zen Cart.
29 Sep 2006, 3:48 AM
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Re: HTML email in version 1.2- can it be done?

Found the docs. Says I can paste html into Newsletter but all I get is the template form's header and boilerplate after I send.

29 Sep 2006, 3:55 AM
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Re: HTML email in version 1.2- can it be done?

What is the HTML you're pasting?

What email client are you testing with?

29 Sep 2006, 4:01 AM
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Re: HTML email in version 1.2- can it be done?

Several pages of html created in GoLive 8 on Mac (newsletter). I can post here but long.
Receiving in Entourage on Mac.

29 Sep 2006, 4:08 AM
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Re: HTML email in version 1.2- can it be done?

when you design a page in golive etc, you end up with content like this:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
usually metatags here
</HEAD>
<BODY>
blahblahblah
</BODY>
</HTML>
```You must ONLY paste the raw content from BETWEEN the <BODY> and </BODY> tags in your emails.  Anything outside that will confuse the email clients.

You must ALSO design all your email content according to HTML 1 and CSS 1 standards. Most email clients are not capable of consistently rendering anything newer than standards developed a couple decades ago.
29 Sep 2006, 4:54 AM
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Re: HTML email in version 1.2- can it be done?

Well, i seem to have both the Send Email and the Newsletter editor in modes now where they are sending nothing. Tried it w/o html tags, and again, w/o html and body tags. Looks great in GoLive, but I get the feeling this feature was not stable in 1.2. Could just be me though as this is my first html newsletter attempt.

29 Sep 2006, 5:47 AM
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Re: HTML email in version 1.2- can it be done?

I had tested the HTML email before without any problem.

May be you can try the html code from the following site for test.
There are many articles with ready made html. Just need copy and paste.
Text Tricks, Index of Recent Text Tricks

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29 Sep 2006, 4:55 PM
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Re: HTML email in version 1.2- can it be done?

Good idea. I also speculated that I just tripped over some new feature of CSS or hml that made the mailer misfire because it didn't know it.

I tried this in a new email and a new newslter and received nothing. Also, I note the email Preview now shows this:

Customer: James Lee
From: [email protected]
Subject: basic email test
Rich Text Message:
Text-Only Message:

But no message, even if I just type simple text.

29 Sep 2006, 5:39 PM
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Re: HTML email in version 1.2- can it be done?

Progress of sorts. On a lark i switched to FireFox and tried again. I can now sent simple text, RTF, and html emails. The text and RTF look perfect. THe HTML is only showing one of the 3 columns of my newsletter.

When I try newsletter manager, the send works now, but I get the raw html, not the newsletter.

Anyway, this seems to be Safari related, maybe in a cache saved, or something like that becasue the entire emai and newsletter process is dead from Safari.