I too would highly suggest against it but the OP was vague on what he was trying to do.

Although I recommend against HTML email, I've been getting a *lot* of pressure from clients for HTML email. So I bite the bullet, get them to at least agree to an opt-out to plain text (or preferably an opt-in for html).

Unfortunately there's not a lot of information about sending HTML email reliably. I would love to see a list of email clients that support/don't support HTML email (or more importantly to what degree they support HTML).

Right now I use the following guidelines:

Right now, some of the market surveys we've done show about a 60/40 love/hate relationship with HTML emails - I think if there was more standarization for email clients (both web and standalone), that number of haters would decrease significantly

-derby

In reply to Re^3: embedding hyperlink using Mail::Sendmail by derby
in thread embedding hyperlink using Mail::Sendmail by Anonymous Monk

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