How to compose HTML mail

In order to be viewed as intended, html needs to be interpreted correctly by the mail programme.

To do this, your html mail header must tell the mail programmes that the message is html, not text. The text header should be replaced with the html header.

Html header: "MIME-Version 1.0 Content-Type:text/html; charset=us-ascii"

Text header: "Content-Type:text/plain; charset=us-ascii"

Some mail programmes will do this automatically when composing html mail (for example, The Bat), others may not.

Alternatively, you could send your html message as a file attachment. However, there is an associated security risk with file attachments and the number of recipients opening your attached message will be significantly lower. The best method of sending html mail is to use a dedicated mail service, like the one that we offer!.

One of the best ways of composing html mail is to use a specific web page design programme. Dreamweaver and FrontPage are a couple of the more popular.