Sending e-mails using iWEB

[gsmiata]

Hi,

with the actual version of MaxBulk Mailer, it should be possible to publish the "newsletter" with iWEB (or any other programm) and only fill in the link to the site. I used the format "website" and the linked webpage (my newsletter) appears in the preview.

If I send out the e-mail, the recipient receives a blank e-mail.

What do I do wrong?
I hope anyone can help me.

Regards

Gavin

 

[stanbusk]

Is this with current v6.7? What does your document look like? It is a big picture?

 

[gsmiata]

Yes, it is 6.7, but still the unregistered version. The document looks like a regular newsletter, some (small) pictures and text.

 

[stanbusk]

Are those pictures available somewhere online? Have you tried to copy and paste the code to a MaxBUlk Mailer document and preview it?

 

[gsmiata]

Hi, now I had some time...

I copied the html code from my iWeb newsletter to MaxBulkMailer (MBM).
Almost nothing was correct, no pictures/backround/colours at all, only the plain text was there, but also with some "?" and several other wrong letters.

So I built a little newsletter in dreamweaver and copied the html code to MBM. In preview everything looked great, but if I send it out, I found several problems.

1. Safari: everything looks great, also the links inside the e-mail
2. Outlook 2003: nothing works, I receive only weired letter combinations instead of an html e-mail
3. Thunderbird: looks good, but the links inside the e-mail don´t work
4. Yahoo: looks good, but the links inside the e-mail don´t work
5. web.de: everything looks great, also the links inside the e-mail

You guys got any idea?

Regards

Gavin

 

[stanbusk]

You have to check your HTML code. Not all code is compatible with all the email readers. There is a list of known incompatibilities here: Email Client HTML Capability Chart and if you are using CSS you may also read: Guidelines for using CSS in email newsletters.

Note that MaxBulk Mailer sends your code as is. What you see here is how good a mail reader is rendering HTML.

About your links, avoid the use the TARGET keyword. It kills links in many mail readers.