This may be a dumb question to ask or maybe im not looking in the right places but can anyone answer the following?
Is it possible to create HTML Emails in Notes either R5 or R6 as easily as you can create in Outlook?
I want to be able to display images in an email that are from the web rather than attaching the image in an email.
Now this is simple to do from Outlook, its menu driven to point to the required image.
Can this be done in Notes without having to type html source code into the email attributes?
Any assistance is appreciated
Adrian
Subject: HTML Emails in R6
In Notes 6, you have programmatic control over creating MIME e-mail (HTML with images and such), but it is not simple. I did a session in Germany a few months back where I showed some of this (see http://www.geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/DEV2003_1 for my presentation on new features in LotusScript for Notes 6 and my demo db). A lot of the effort is put on you, but you have the flexibility to do a lot with the MIME classes, or at least a lot more than I showed, as this was one small part of the session.
Another approach, if you really want more simple and powerful and have a bit of money to spend, is to use a third party product such as our Midas Rich Text LSX which handles both rich text → MIME and HTML → MIME easily. See http://www.GeniiSoft.com for details, and see our Send It! sample db.
Subject: HTML Emails in R6
Not a dumb question at all! I spent some time on this a couple weeks back, you can check out my findings here:
http://tblog.dyndns.org/personal/tmk/tblog.nsf/archive/20030527-1008%20AM?OpenDocument&count=-1
As Ben states, the effor it put on you. Lotus doesn’t make it easy. The reason Outlook works so well is because Internet Explorer is used as the renderer for HTML. So it can format easier and also displays rec’vd html emails better than Notes.
As of late I have been looking at Ben’s software, Send It! It really is a great product if you have the $ to spend. Jake Howlett’s LS and Java options are great as well!
Good luck!