html email question
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- FallowDeer
Just a quick question if this is possible?
client wants a html email, and when it loads on someones email program, it auto open a html page.
I dont think its possible, but need someone to let me know
cheers
- max_prophet0
so basically they are trying really hard to piss people off?
- 7point340
it's possible but not at all recommended.
and i think it would only work in a browser based webmail apps
- anxiousarms0
that sounds incredible invasive and like something that would piss me and a ton of other people off. i'd unsubscribe immediately if i opened an email that auto-opened ANYTHING on my machine.
- FallowDeer0
thanks for letting me know!
yeah this guy is a right nob
but if he wants it, ive got to do, any tuts on how this is done?
as I thought the code would get stripped in outlook?
- anxiousarms0
whoever is producing the actual email code should be able to hook it up for you. are you designing said crappy email idea or developing it?
- anxiousarms0
whoever is producing the actual email code should be able to hook it up for you. are you designing said crappy email idea or developing it?
- FallowDeer0
im developing it, but ive not done it before.
so im just finding out if its possible and work 100%
as if it didnt id just get a load of hassling saying it doesnt work on the bosses win 3.1 DOS!!! haha
- anxiousarms0
i'd be willing to bet that a lot of email programs would strip that functionality for security reasons. and i'd also imagine that web-mail clients (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc) will completely ignore the coding all together for the same reason.
- harlequino0
Wouldn't this sort of thing be completely disabled (by default anyway) in an email app?
- thats what I thought?
but this guy is talking about it like its built in default haha!FallowDeer - in outlook and etc. certainly7point34
- it would only work in web-based clients like yahoo mail, and even then i'm not certain7point34
- thats what I thought?
- acescence0
yeah, certainly no corporate environment is going to be set up to allow scripts to execute in an email. they don't even load images. and i imagine most web-based clients would strip all of that out or at least block by default.
- FallowDeer0
So am I telling the client NO!???
- I cant find anything on google that shows you how to do it anyway?FallowDeer
- acescence0
oh yeah, not to mention that that stuff will likely get you flagged by spam filters
- harlequino0
Might want to send him this article as well.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/200…
- janne760
i am still trying to get rid of clients in my building, but somehow they always creep through half open windows, or cracks in the walls and crawl to your desk with stupid questions.
anyone has some clienticide? a spray or powder that would help?
damn clients are all over my office now..
- FallowDeer0
I think im gonna tell him not to be a silly suasage
- penelopes0
i have the same bull shit ! fuck html emails
- BattleAxe0
IMHO, it is not possible to redirect on load for several reasons
browser-based email applications (like Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!Mail, etc) strip out your HTML, HEAD, and BODY tags so they won’t interfere with their own web page.
so redirecting with a meta tag or javascript is out of the question
JavaScript, ActiveX, Flash, and embedded movie files won’t work.
sneeking in a blank flash file with a redirect onload will not work either either ,
http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/ht…
http://www.email-standards.org/
- doesnotexist0
you need to have a click before shit opens