Loading HTML into e-mails

[Boogle]

I'm pretty new to the e-mail marketing and have created a news letter in html, that i want to load into an e-mail and send out to our e-mail database list.

Does anyone know the geneal procedure for loading HTML into email's? im a c# man btw if anyone is going to post code!

Any help is appreciated,

Thanks
Boog's

[bogs]

what kind of email service you are using..?

[Boogle]

I will be sending them out via our exchange server using our domain.

Someone e-mailed me this

public class FileClass
{
    public static void Main()
    {
    ReadFromFile("c:\\MyTextFile.txt");
    }
    static void ReadFromFile(string filename)
    {
    StreamReader SR;
    string S;
    SR=File.OpenText(filename);
    S=SR.ReadLine();
    while(S!=null)
    {
    Console.WriteLine(S);
    S=SR.ReadLine();
    }
    SR.Close();
    }
}

but reading that, it doesn't seem like it will do a lot, can anyone expand on that?

[Costin Trifan]

I'm not a C# programmer, but this code of yours doesn't do anything else than reading a file...

I suppose that an e-mail marketing is based on something like this:
1. create content to e-mail
2. insert in database (or not, that depends on what your using in your marketing campaign)
3. have a procedure that automatically send an e-mail to your designated contacts with your newly uploaded content

Do you have the code that actually sends the e-mail? If you do, than all you have to do next is adding the text file content to the body of your e-mail.

[Boogle]

You guys,

Nevermind now I have found this out:

Outlooks 2007 has switched to word for its rendering engine, where as it used to be IE.

This means it no longer supports:

background images;
animated gifs;
flash;
position and float CSS;
forms

We now have to work around these unsupported features and re-deisgn any HTML formats yo 'used' to e-mail since it's estimated that already 40-45% of outlook users are already on Outlook 2007

the link for the article: (please don't move admini- there's too much content to paste ?)

http://www.emaillabs.com/email_marke...tml_email.html

Hope this is a useful piece of advice for anyone attempting mail-marketing!

Boog's

[Costin Trifan]

Interesting!

Thanks for letting us all know!