Creating HTML formatted emails.

First things first, lets get the filemaker database to HTML. Go to File>Export and in the resulting dialog choose HTML table. We'll get to the mail part once youve gotten that far.

What we plan to do is since we have the content in a database, the content will be exported to html using XSL. We have different XSL sheets for different groups.

My main concern is how to incorporate the html file created from the XSL output. At the moment, all XSL html outputs are placed in a directory and each html file is named according to the group.

I'm trying to figure out how to send the email using the html file as the formatted html email.

What steps do I need to do follow, is there any reading material on this.

Thanks.




 

mailto protocol does not support HTML whatever is the platform, therefore you need an intermediate file... neither handy nor automatic. I nearly checked all plug-ins for sending mail from filemaker quite recently and did not find any way to do this...

Try www.dacons.net. With their plugin we sent out our html-based mails. And this works fine! regards, Gert

You can't send HTML email from FileMaker. You need to use a plug-in that supports multi-part messages like Mondo Mail from Acme Technogies. Using a plug-in also leads to further automation as you no longer need to rely on a Mail client for sending of messages.