[AccessD] HTML personalized mass mail

Andy Lacey andy at minstersystems.co.uk
Tue Mar 1 09:19:10 CST 2005


Sorry Gustav, can't help with that. Not an issue I've attempted to deal
with.
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Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



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From: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
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To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] HTML personalized mass mail
Date: 01/03/05 16:12

>
> Hi Andy
>
> OK, in that way the file for the body - including pictures - can have
> any size.
>
> The only issue I can see at the moment is, that "foreign"
characters
> (non US ASCII) are encoded in HTML.
> How would I do that encoding? It is relevant as names here often
> contain strange characters.
>
> Or would it be enough just to specify the character set, which is
> "ISO-8859-1", as the default for the document? Then any special
> character can be "hardcoded" in the body.
>
> /gustav
>
> >>> andy at minstersystems.co.uk 01-03-2005 14:57:10 >>>
> Hi Gustav
> I had a go at this ages ago. The project never happened so I didn't
> take it
> very far but IIRC what I did (and it worked as far as it went) was
> create an
> HTML document as my template then, in Access, I read that in line by
> line as
> a text file, building up a string, replaced a recognisable bit of text
> with
> the required name, then plugged the string into the Outlook email's
> ..HTMLBody.
>
>
> --
> Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
>
>
>
> --------- Original Message --------
> From: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: [AccessD] HTML personalized mass mail
> Date: 01/03/05 14:35
>
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > The client wish to move from general mass e-mail (Dear customer ..)
> in
> > plain text to personalized e-mail (Dear Mrs. Harkins ..) in HTML
> > format.
> >
> > I know all about getting Access to generate e-mails and have them
> > mailed but how to create the body of the e-mail in HTML format?
> Also,
> > the e-mail must contain a part in plain text which will be shown to
> > those receivers not having a mail client with HTML reader.
> >
> > My thought is to have the client's advertising agency creating a
> > template with a &quot;field&quot; - some unique search word
which I
> can search for
> > and replace with the actual customer's name as it carries no purpose
> to
> > have the Access app build the e-mail from scratch.
> >
> > Has anyone done something similar?
> >
> > /gustav
>
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