Re: how to create a HREF inside a email message-javamail
Re: how to create a HREF inside a email message-javamail
- Subject: Re: how to create a HREF inside a email message-javamail
- From: petite_abeille <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:56:12 +0200
On Thursday, Oct 23, 2003, at 17:05 Europe/Amsterdam, Serge Froment
wrote:
I build HTML mail content by simply using normal WebObject pages.
Oh, my...
The first question anyone contemplating such an unreasonable move
should ask themselves is: why? Why create HTML email in the first
place? HTML emails are a nuisance and any reasonable email user should
turn them off by default. In Mail.app, you can choose a plain text
representation as your default view:
defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText YES
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030711201917175
At a bare minimum, turn off image rendering and other dynamic contents.
Now... if you still persist in your devious ways... you should at least
create a multipart/alternative with a nice and clean looking text/plain
part instead of abusing your long suffering users with html.
If you feel particularly perverse, you may consider crafting your HTML
part in such a way that your unsuspecting user could end up running
your entire application in their email clients. Here is a sad
illustration:
http://zoe.nu/itstories/story.php?data=stories&num=44&sec=2
Some reading:
http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml
Finally, if you are spamming your users with a newsletter or such, you
may want to consider something like an RSS feed as an alternative
distribution channel.
Cheers,
PA.
P.S.
If you feel like totally abusing email, take a look at Zaplet:
http://www.zaplet.com/
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