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[Howdy_McGee]

So I have to develop an email newsletter. I am having the most trouble with this than anything I've ever learned. I understand it has to be coded all in tables and inline CSS and such but HOW do you actually place what you code into an email? I mean there are no "HTML" option on Yahoo mail or gmail. Has anyone developed any kind of email newsletter before? How did you place in your HTML?

[WingedPanther]

Generally, the body is just a normal HTML page, with the CSS included as part of the head tag.

[Alexander]

HTML safe email is not part of the RFC, although certainly a large amount of mail/web mail clients support a MIME type (and a fair percentage of electronic mail I get is HTML)

As you require MIME headers likely, I do not think you can do this with Yahoo or Gmail, you will need your own processing script to send the mail (i.e. PHP which could in the end automate generation and delivery of this as a benefit)

Is this a possibility for you? You could possibly set this up on your own computer and connect to an SMTP server (i.e. your ISPs) or get a hosting of which supports mail sending.

[Upstream]

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So I have to develop an email newsletter.

I am not sure what you need to develop: a single newsletter to be send or a newsletter management system to create and send multiple newsletters? I think that what you are trying to discribe is that you need to create an email message using html, css etc for the layout and the standerd email format to include the headers so it is ready to be send as a valid email?

Maybe this will help you on your way:
Email - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

[Howdy_McGee]

Upstream said:

I am not sure what you need to develop: a single newsletter to be send or a newsletter management system to create and send multiple newsletters? I think that what you are trying to discribe is that you need to create an email message using html, css etc for the layout and the standerd email format to include the headers so it is ready to be send as a valid email?

Maybe this will help you on your way:
Email - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Thanks for the help I know HTML and CSS very well. My problem is actually GETTING the html into the email since i use online mail services like Google Mail and Yahoo Mail. I've been told that I have to use Outlook or something similar to actually get the HTML into the email. Kind of hesitant to download Outlook though. . . Anyone got something similar to out look to make these html newsletters?

[Upstream]

I don't think that that is going to work as well. I think you are best of using your own script for making this happen. There are open source thinks out their. You need a own website with something like PHP running to make this work properly I think. You could use an program but with that I can’t help you along. Maybe you can find it here?

http://www.scripts.com/php-scripts.

Good luck with it!