[WebPub] Help Concerning MIT VPF Email Newsletter

[Scott Rolph]

Hi,

I was hoping to draw upon the collective expertise of you all. We (the  
Office of the Vice President for Finance) have begun sending out an  
HTML-formatted email newsletter and have encountered three issues:

1. The formatting doesn't hold when a recipient forwards the email or  
replies to it.
2. I have tried to provide the html file to others for importing into  
a new Outlook or Thunderbird email but the formatting does not display  
properly once imported.
3. Some recipients have complained that the images come through as  
attachments, even though the img sources point to the image locations  
on our server.

Any thoughts on how (if at all) I can rectify these issues? I can  
provide the source file in an email individually if that would be  
helpful in assessing the issue. Here is the process I use for creating  
the email.

1. Post images on our server.
2. Prepare HTML source in TextEdit on Mac. Stylesheet included in  
header.
3. Open HTML file in Safari. Select all and copy.
4. Open new email in Mac Mail and paste copied material into body of  
email.

I would very much welcome any guidance.

Thanks,

Scott


Scott Rolph
Senior Communications Officer
Office of the Vice President for Finance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building NE 49, Room 4064
Cambridge, MA 02139
Telephone: 617-258-8170
E-mail: srolph at mit.edu
http://vpf.mit.edu







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