HTML message fonts

I cannot figure out the way the fonts work with rich text emails. This has always bugged me. It's really annoying. If I use rich text, on my machine, it looks nice (i guess it's lucida grande - i've never switched it). But when the person on the other end gets it, they see it as nasty times new roman. How do I set the font so that all users will see the same thing, like arial? Also, I regularly get emails with fonts that are so small i can barely read them, and then i have to hit the "bigger" button like 10 times. this seems to only happen from windows (outlook) emails. why is that happening? can't i just set the font to send and read and the size and be done with it??

It doesn't matter which font you choose to use if it is not on a Windows machine, they will not see the message properly because they don't have the font on their system and it gets substituted by a font they do have. You can choose fonts in the "Web" category to ensure the fonts will work.
The default font size for messages in Outlook Express has always been 9. Everytime I set up a clients email program I change it to 12, both for my clients eyes while they are typing the message, and for the people who receive their messages. The default font size is easily changed in Outlook Express and other Windows Email programs by anyone who bothers to look.
In Apple Mail you can also adjust your default font and size for creating new messages, but Mail seems to honor the settings in the received email, and I don't know of a way to change the default font size for viewing a message.
You can add a Text Size button to the top of all incoming emails by going to the "View" menu and choosing "Customize Toolbar". Drag the button with the Small A and Large A into the Toolbar area. It becomes available in every message you open.

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Dear All,
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import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.activation.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
public class MailServlet
extends HttpServlet
protected void printForm(String form,
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException
PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter();
form = MessageFormat.format(form,
new Object[] { request.getServletPath() });
writer.print(form);
writer.flush();
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException
printForm(request.getParameter("SendMailForm"),request,response);
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException
try
if(request.getContentType().
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doUpload(request,response);
else
response.sendError(
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catch(Exception e)
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writer.println("<HR><B>Oops!</B><PRE>");
e.printStackTrace(writer);
writer.println("</PRE>");
writer.flush();
protected void doSendMessage(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response,
Dictionary fields)
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Properties props = System.getProperties();
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Session.getInstance(props, null);
Message msg =
new MimeMessage(
session); /*.getDefaultInstance(
System.getProperties(),null));*/
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new InternetAddress(
(String)fields.get("from")));
InternetAddress[] tos =
InternetAddress.parse((String)fields.get("to"));
msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,tos);
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InternetAddress[] ccs =
InternetAddress.parse((String)fields.get("cc"));
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msg.setSubject((String)fields.get("subject"));
msg.setSentDate(new Date());
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     msgText+="<TR>";
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multipart.addBodyPart(attachment);
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request.getHeader("Content-Type");
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boundary = boundary.substring(pos + 1);
boundary = "--" + boundary;
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byte[] bytes = new byte[512];
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ByteArrayOutputStream buffer =
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value = null,
filename = null,
contentType = null;
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String name)
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if(contentType == null)
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bytes,0,bytes.length - 2);
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return name;
public OutputStream getOutputStream()
throws IOException
throw new FileNotFoundException();
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Getting text/html message in proper format

i want to send a message in html format by setting the message content as:
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if i do this i get it in proper format in red color.
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" Dear xyz,
How are You?
I am fine.
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i htink u can go in for pre formatting..
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sriram

HTML Message

I'd like to send a message (MS Outlook called it HTML message) with special effects such as bold, italic and the other font. How could I do this?
Thanks,
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Hi Bob,
Thanks for your message. I sent out two new messages to myself. I wrote one sentence without bold or italic in a message and two sentences in the other in which the first one was no bold and italic (just typed one sentence) and the second was with bold and italic.
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Charles

Send email including the data field into the html message body

Hi all,
I would like to send an email to each recipient once only, and including a data field into the html body message. I am not sure how to achive that with my current stored procedure.
USE [CallManager]
GO
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[PersonalCallsReminder] Script Date: 08/27/2014 10:26:55 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
-- =============================================
-- Author: <Author,,Name>
-- Create date: <Create Date,,>
-- Description: <Description,,>
-- =============================================
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[PersonalCallsReminder]
AS
BEGIN
-- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
-- interfering with SELECT statements.
SET NOCOUNT ON;
-- Email Users
declare @email varchar(max)
declare mycursor cursor FAST_FORWARD for
SELECT dbo.HumersStaffExtension.email
FROM dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header INNER JOIN
dbo.HumersStaffExtension ON
dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.TelNumber = dbo.HumersStaffExtension.telnr_prv COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
GROUP BY dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.RecordStatus, dbo.HumersStaffExtension.usr_id, dbo.HumersStaffExtension.email,
dbo.HumersStaffExtension.res_id
HAVING (dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.RecordStatus = N'0') AND (NOT (dbo.HumersStaffExtension.email IS NULL))
OPEN mycursor;
FETCH NEXT FROM mycursor
INTO @email
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@profile_name = 'CallsManagement',
@recipients = @email ,
@body_format = 'HTML',
@subject = 'Personal Calls Reminder',
@body = '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<title>Personal Calls Reminder</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 11pt;
.auto-style1 {
background-color: #FFFF00;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<table style="width: 800px">
<tr>
<td>Dear,<br />
<br />
Please review your phone bills and submit your personal calls using the following link:<br />
<a href="http://companyxyz/personalcalls/">Personal Calls</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/>
<table style="width: 800px">
<tr>
<td><strong>Kindly be informed that the deadline to process new bills is on the
<span class="auto-style1">15th of each month</span>.</strong></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/>
<table style="width: 800px">
<tr>
<td>For assistance, please contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/>
<table style="width: 800px">
<tr>
<td><strong>*** This is an automatically generated email, please do not reply ***</strong></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
FETCH NEXT FROM mycursor
INTO @email
END
CLOSE mycursor;
DEALLOCATE mycursor;
END
Changing the query to the following:
SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT dbo.HumersStaffExtension.email, dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.ExtractDate
FROM dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header INNER JOIN
dbo.HumersStaffExtension ON
dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.TelNumber = dbo.HumersStaffExtension.telnr_prv COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
GROUP BY dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.RecordStatus, dbo.HumersStaffExtension.usr_id, dbo.HumersStaffExtension.email, dbo.HumersStaffExtension.res_id,
dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.ExtractDate
HAVING (dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.RecordStatus = N'0') AND (NOT (dbo.HumersStaffExtension.email IS NULL))
ORDER BY dbo.HumersStaffExtension.email
Will provide me with the following results:
email ExtractDate
[email protected]
July-2014
[email protected]
August-2014
[email protected]
July-2014
[email protected]
August-2014
Is it possible to send email to [email protected] once only including in the html message body the ExtractDate field results for July-2014 and August-2014?
I appreciate any assist on the issue.
Thank you in advance.

Refer the below code highlighted in bold.
USE [CallManager]
GO
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[PersonalCallsReminder]    Script Date: 08/27/2014 10:26:55 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
-- =============================================
-- Author:  <Author,,Name>
-- Create date: <Create Date,,>
-- Description: <Description,,>
-- =============================================
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[PersonalCallsReminder]
AS
BEGIN
-- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
-- interfering with SELECT statements.
SET NOCOUNT ON;
-- Email Users
declare @email varchar(max),@date datetime
declare @temp table (email varchar(50), extractDate datetime)
insert into @temp
  SELECT     TOP (100) PERCENT dbo.HumersStaffExtension.email, dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.ExtractDate
  FROM         dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header INNER JOIN
         dbo.HumersStaffExtension ON
         dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.TelNumber = dbo.HumersStaffExtension.telnr_prv COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
  GROUP BY dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.RecordStatus, dbo.HumersStaffExtension.usr_id, dbo.HumersStaffExtension.email, dbo.HumersStaffExtension.res_id,
         dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.ExtractDate
  HAVING      (dbo.Calls_Mobile_Header.RecordStatus = N'0') AND (NOT (dbo.HumersStaffExtension.email IS NULL))
  ORDER BY dbo.HumersStaffExtension.email
declare mycursor cursor FAST_FORWARD for SELECT DISTINCT email from @temp
OPEN mycursor;
FETCH NEXT FROM mycursor
INTO @email
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
    DECLARE @date nvarchar(200)
    SELECT @date=Stuff((SELECT ',' + [extractDate]
              FROM   @temp where email = @email
              FOR xml path('')), 1, 1, '')
       EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
            @profile_name = 'CallsManagement',
            @recipients = @email ,
            @body_format = 'HTML',
            @subject = 'Personal Calls Reminder',
            @body = '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<title>Personal Calls Reminder</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 11pt;
.auto-style1 {
background-color: #FFFF00;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>Extract Date : ' + @date + '</div>
<div>
<table style="width: 800px">
  <tr>
   <td>Dear,<br />
   <br />
   Please review your phone bills and submit your personal calls using the following link:<br />
   <a href="Personal">http://companyxyz/personalcalls/">Personal Calls</a></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<br/>
<table style="width: 800px">
  <tr>
   <td><strong>Kindly be informed that the deadline to process new bills is on the
   <span class="auto-style1">15th of each month</span>.</strong></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<br/>
<table style="width: 800px">
  <tr>
   <td>For assistance, please contact <a href="[email protected]:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<br/>
<table style="width: 800px">
<tr>
<td><strong>*** This is an automatically generated email, please do not reply ***</strong></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
      FETCH NEXT FROM mycursor
      INTO @email
END
CLOSE mycursor;
DEALLOCATE mycursor;
END
Regards, RSingh

Can I Send HTML Messages in Mail?

I am trying to send html messages in Mail, and also to add a small html code to my signature. Is this possible? If so, how? When I put in straight code, it just remains text. I know I receive html mail, so....?

RTf with Tiger Mail is HTML but the Mail.app does not include an HTML composer/editor.
In order to send basic text as HTML instead of Plain Text when using RTF for message composition requires changing the font or color of existing text in a new message and/or when selecting bold, underline or italic for a word or a portion of existing text. This part I don't understand since selecting RTF for message composition should send the font and font size selected under Fonts & Colors for the Mail.app preferences as HTML by itself.
You can use an HTML editor/composer of choice (Apple's Text Edit application can be used for this) and save the completed HTML document. Open the saved HTML document with Safari and after confirming the layout, etc. with Safari, at the menu bar go to File and select Mail Contents of This Page and the rendered page with Safari will be copied to a new Mail.app message which will be sent in its entirety.
You can set up a "template" this way by saving the HTML message as a Draft. Utilize a user created "On My Mac" location mailbox named Templates and transfer this message from the account's Drafts mailbox to the Templates mailbox. Select this templates message and at the menu bar, go to Message and select Send Again entering all recipients and making any changes, etc. The original template message will not be altered.
Regarding creating a Mail.app signature with HTML code, check this link.
http://allforces.com/2006/04/14/css-signatures/
Don't know for sure at this point but it appears this may become easier with the Mail.app under Leopard.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/mail.html

In Mail 3.6 remote images in HTML messages display as blue squares with ? even though checked in viewing references.

In Mail 3.6 remote images in HTML messages display as blue squares with ? even though checked in viewing references.

Nurit,
The point is that that button should not be there, if the preference setting is as you say. This indicates the preference setting is stuck, and that is what I was trying to help you resolve.
The full purge is done as follows:
Quit Mail, and in the Finder open Home/Library and locate the Mail folder. Control-click over the Mail folder, and choose Duplicate -- then drag the resulting copy to the Desktop for temporary backup. Next, open Home/Library/Preferences and find the com.apple.mail.plist file and drag it to the desktop.
Relaunch Mail, which will open as though new, and when prompted to import anything DECLINE. Instead, re-enter your account info, and Mail will re-discover the account folders for your accounts, and all should be well, after setting preferences as you desire.
Ask any needed questions, and keep us posted.
Ernie

HTML messages crash Mail

Since this morning, every time I try to open an HTML message in Mail, it crashes. I don't have a problem with regular text e-mails, just HTML. I've repaired permissions, run Disk Utility and Disk Warrior, and I don't know how to proceed.
Can anyone help, please?

Hi lsgmilano, and a warm welcome to the forums if you han't been already!
First I'd backup your whole Mail folder, by right clicking on it in the Finder, then choose Archive/Compress.
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip..
Quit Mail, then In your home folder, try moving this +folder & file+ to the Desktop then reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail
Move to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index

KNOWN ISSUE: HTML Messages with plain-text signatures

To get around the EAS security policy issue, I'm having non-sensitive emails from work forwarded to a GMail account from a redirect set up in our corporate OWA. The redirect seems to send the messages to GMail without any issues; formatting is 100% intact, and in the GMail web client as well as Thunderbird, Entourage, etc., HTML emails with plain-text signature attachments show the plain-text message inline with the rest of the formatted message. All of our internal mailing lists have these plain text attachments that say where the message was coming from (Message sent from [email protected] by listserv). These get affixed to every message, both plain text and HTML.
Here's my problem: The Pre's email client handles both plain text and HTML messages beautifully. But, when I receive a message from a mailing list with a plain text attachment, the HTML portion disappears, and all I see is the signature.
Is there any way to make the Pre show the HTML INSTEAD of the plain text? I can live without the sig, I know where the messages are coming from already. But if I can't read the message, it's useless. I've only begun researching this and so far Google hasn't been much help, nor has searching these or other forums. Any help would be appreciated.
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I just got off the phone with Palm Support. Apparently this is a bug in the mail application. It currently does not support parsing both HTML and plain text in the same message. It will read EITHER plain text OR HTML, but not both at the same time. This will be fixed in a future update.

How to send Html message in this procedure?

Hi all,
here is one procedure
DECLARE
v_connection UTL_SMTP.CONNECTION;
BEGIN
v_connection := UTL_SMTP.OPEN_CONNECTION('mail.idealake.com',25);
UTL_SMTP.HELO(v_connection,'mail.idealake.com');
UTL_SMTP.MAIL(v_connection,'[email protected]');
UTL_SMTP.RCPT(v_connection,'[email protected]');
UTL_SMTP.DATA(v_connection,'Sent From PL/SQL');
UTL_SMTP.QUIT(v_connection);
END;
I want to send html message throug this procedure.
Please tell me tjhe solution.
Thanks in advance.
Prathamesh.

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Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: (qmail 26064 invoked by uid 0); 5 May 2006 08:34:38 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO srv94-252.ip-tech.ch) (195.129.94.252)
by blade1-7.iptech.localdomain with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 5 May 2006 08:34:38
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Received: (qmail 12980 invoked by uid 504); 5 May 2006 08:34:38 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO srv2-2.ip-tech.ch) (10.10.2.100)
by 0 with SMTP; 5 May 2006 08:34:38 -0000
Received: (qmail 14295 invoked by uid 65534); 5 May 2006 08:34:37 -0000
Date: 5 May 2006 08:34:37 -0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: "martin knecht" <[email protected]>
Subject: test
X-PHP-Script: www.mikrokosmos-music.ch/shop/admin/mail.php for 62.202.75.246
From: "mikrokosmos music" <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Zen Cart Mailer
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