HTML emails to customers

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   I was wondering if anyone had implemented using HTML email notification to customers. If so could you provide any recommendations or tips?

Thanks

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geoff Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 15-January-2006 Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote geoff Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: HTML emails to customers Posted: 02-April-2008 at 10:30am
	I was wondering if anyone had implemented using HTML email notification to customers. If so could you provide any recommendations or tips? Thanks

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02-April-2008 at 11:15am
	Geoff, I created a modification of the Drop Ship Purchase Order so that it sends a HTML e-mail: http://www.greybearddesign.com/productcart/html-dropship-po/ When preparing to send the message, I had to set this variable which the sendmail.asp script will know to send the message in HTML mode. session("News_MsgType") = "1" Once I had overridden this value, I discovered the need to reset it or I caused other problems on unrelated scripts (order confirmation). So you have to grab the value and save that setting, override and use the new setting, then reset it. That gets you to the point where the e-mail can be sent in HTML mode. As for the actual formatting of such a message, I suspect this is beyond the scope of what could be done in the forum. It's going to take digging into the current code, as I did for the PO mod, and improvise.

cmason Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18-June-2008 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote cmason Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21-July-2008 at 6:31pm
	I was just looking for the same thing because of the way the customer's order confirmation email doesn't line up very well. 3 years ago that was fine because a lot of businesses blocked HTML email but I doubt that's true anymore. I'm thinking it might be possible to include the print version of the order after making sure the logo graphic has the full path embedded. Has anyone tried this? If you have, what gotchas did you experience?