Adding a rounded dropshadow effect behind a HTML email message

Hello. I am looking to add a rounded corner box with a dropshadow effect behind a HTML email message. I got it working great in gmail with four corner images and repeating background slice for the sides and top and bottom. The problem is background images do not work in Hotmail and a few other email clients. Anyone have any suggestions as how to achieve this? Thanks.

Ah, "the client wants it". That factor has led to more bad design decisions over the years than I can count.
The client needs to understand that there are literally hundreds of millions of email users with hundreds of millions of different settings for their accounts, and there is now way imaginable in heaven or on earth to FORCE all desired styling and content to appear in every possible viewer's email when they open it. On a local network maybe, but not the entire world. So, ultimately they're asking you to design something that far less than tenth of one percent of possible recipients may (not will, but may) ever see.
It's a bit like asking you to paint an elaborate mural inside a closet and then they lock the door and break the key off in the knob. You did a great job on it but no one will ever see it.
I don't work for Microsoft or Google, or Yahoo or Opera (or any of the hundreds of thousands of proprietary hosted email services out there), so I couldn't venture even a wild a guess as to how to force their servers to display content for a single insistent client somewhere.
I'm sure this has been tried unsuccessfully many many times in the past, but I seriously doubt it's been "done" universally. I've seen a few dozen people here who've tried it and tried it, and eventually gave up because they realized just what I just laid out... was true.
If the client still insists, politely explain to them that they are defeating their purpose in adding all the fancy effects because of the minute number of people who will ever see them. Invisibility is not the purpose of promotion, and if promotion is the purpose of the emails, making them invisible won't help.

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>I may be going about this the wrong way but I am trying
to automate a
>report to
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>
> I have created a php page report and then added the
attached code to
> create an
> e-mail to a specific individual.
>
> As you will see, the $message variable only carries
simple text as it is
> part
> of a php script (which does not like embedded
<script>)
>
> Does anyone know how to go about putting in a dynamic
table for example?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
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