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Sql Server 2008 Database Mail amends html tags
Posted on 2011-03-04
When I send a
I'm trying to send valid XHTML but of course
I've tried escaping the / and using the CHAR function both of which make no difference.
I assume it's go something to do with the way Database Mail has been set-up but I can't find anything related to this sort of thing.
Please help
<br />
<br />
<br>
I'm trying to send valid XHTML but of course
<br>
I've tried escaping the / and using the CHAR function both of which make no difference.
I assume it's go something to do with the way Database Mail has been set-up but I can't find anything related to this sort of thing.
Please help
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Please see my solution/code for a similar question:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Office_Productivity/Groupware/Outlook/Q_26826472.html
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Office_Productivity/Groupware/Outlook/Q_26826472.html
I've tried that here is a code snippet
The meta tag and the br tag both have their self closing / removed.
Any other ideas please.
SET @BodyHTML =
N'<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title> + @MessageSubject + </title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #333;
}
</style>
</head>
<body><br/>
The meta tag and the br tag both have their self closing / removed.
Any other ideas please.
Just one other thing to add lcohan, your example doesn't have any self closing tags.
It is specifically these that I'm having a problem with
Many thanks
rs256
It is specifically these that I'm having a problem with
Many thanks
rs256
Yes, however we are sending email with a table in it with 20-30 records in it and it works a lot better in HTML.
I understand all real coders only send text messages with links in but this is a customer facing system and HTML is pretty much expected !
Thanks for the thought though.
I understand all real coders only send text messages with links in but this is a customer facing system and HTML is pretty much expected !
Thanks for the thought though.
We are at least 2 individuals in this comunity that tested and agreed the code below works fine for sending HTML - maybe you missed something with copy paste:
create table #test (column1 int, column2 text, column3 text, column4 text)
insert into #test SELECT 1 ,'text2','text3','text4'
insert into #test SELECT 2 ,'code2','code3','code4'
DECLARE @title nvarchar(200)
DECLARE @tableHTML nvarchar(MAX)
SET @title = 'Summary Report - FunctionCode'
SET @tableHTML =
N'<H1>' + @title + '</H1>' +
N'<table border="1">' +
N'<tr>' +
N'<th>Column1</th>' +
N'<th>Column2</th>' +
N'<th>Column3</th>' +
N'<th>Column4</th>' +
CAST(
(SELECT
td = Column1 ,'',
td = Column2,'',
td = Column3,'',
td = Column4,''
FROM #test WHERE column1 in (1,2)
FOR XML PATH('tr'), TYPE)
AS NVARCHAR(MAX) )
+ N'</table>' ;
IF @tableHTML is not null
BEGIN
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@profile_name = 'mail_profile',
@recipients='user@mail.com
@subject = @title,
@body = @tableHTML ,
@body_format = 'HTML' ;
END
drop table #test
create table #test (column1 int, column2 text, column3 text, column4 text)
insert into #test SELECT 1 ,'text2','text3','text4'
insert into #test SELECT 2 ,'code2','code3','code4'
DECLARE @title nvarchar(200)
DECLARE @tableHTML nvarchar(MAX)
SET @title = 'Summary Report - FunctionCode'
SET @tableHTML =
N'<H1>' + @title + '</H1>' +
N'<table border="1">' +
N'<tr>' +
N'<th>Column1</th>' +
N'<th>Column2</th>' +
N'<th>Column3</th>' +
N'<th>Column4</th>' +
CAST(
(SELECT
td = Column1 ,'',
td = Column2,'',
td = Column3,'',
td = Column4,''
FROM #test WHERE column1 in (1,2)
FOR XML PATH('tr'), TYPE)
AS NVARCHAR(MAX) )
+ N'</table>' ;
IF @tableHTML is not null
BEGIN
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@profile_name = 'mail_profile',
@recipients='user@mail.com
@subject = @title,
@body = @tableHTML ,
@body_format = 'HTML' ;
END
drop table #test
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Something else is going on here. I just executed the code below and verified the html sent (using sysmail_sentitems) and received matched what was originally entered.
DECLARE @rc int,
@Message varchar(1000)
SET @Message = '<html>
<body bgColor=#ffffff>
Test Email. <br />
</body>
</html>'
EXEC @rc = msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@recipients = 'my email address goes here',
@subject = 'Test Email',
@body_format = 'HTML',
@body = @Message
SELECT @rc
Many thanks for your efforts lcohan and acperkins. lcohan's example still doesn't have any self closing tags but acperkins got to the bottom of it.
It's not database mail that is causing the problem it's Exchange 2010, although Gmail seems to do the same thing we did find some mail mails servers that left the tags alone.
This takes the issue out of SQL database mail territory so I'll close it and accept acperkins's answer.
Thanks again for the help.
rs256
It's not database mail that is causing the problem it's Exchange 2010, although Gmail seems to do the same thing we did find some mail mails servers that left the tags alone.
This takes the issue out of SQL database mail territory so I'll close it and accept acperkins's answer.
Thanks again for the help.
rs256
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