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Title: Including formatting in Do-More emails
Post by: Controls Guy on August 05, 2020, 01:29:56 PM
I'm trying to email some tabular data from Do-More, so I need the emails to appear in a monospaced font for the columns to line up.    In a PC email client, you can specify the font, but in Do-More there's no such mechanism, so I'm trying to figure out how the email format does it under the hood and hopefully it's something I can embed in the email body text so it can be done from Do-More.    I tried the following, based on The Google, but doesn't seem to do what I want, when viewing received emails in  Thunderbird.

Anyone know how to do this?


Code: [Select]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Disposition: inline
<html>
<body>
<pre style="font: monospace">

My table data here

</pre>
</body>
</html>
Title: Re: Including formatting in Do-More emails
Post by: franji1 on August 05, 2020, 02:19:37 PM
I saw this hack:

Forward the message back to yourself, but change the font to a fixed-width font.
Title: Re: Including formatting in Do-More emails
Post by: Controls Guy on August 05, 2020, 02:42:37 PM
Quote from: franji1 on August 05, 2020, 02:19:37 PM
I saw this hack:

Forward the message back to yourself, but change the font to a fixed-width font.

You mean the recipient would need to do that?   That's not ideal for me, because the customer is the recipient, not me.   I want the Do-More to do it before it gets to him.
Title: Re: Including formatting in Do-More emails
Post by: franji1 on August 05, 2020, 03:55:52 PM
Could you make it an attachment as an HTML file?  Sadly, a lot of anti-virus programs might strip it.
Title: Re: Including formatting in Do-More emails
Post by: franji1 on August 05, 2020, 04:01:46 PM
Quote from: franji1 on August 05, 2020, 03:55:52 PM
Could you make it an attachment as an HTML file?  Sadly, a lot of anti-virus programs might strip it.

I was able to email an HTML file to myself.  Outlook warned me about looking at content in its preview, but I was able to view it after I said it was OK.
Title: Re: Including formatting in Do-More emails
Post by: Controls Guy on August 05, 2020, 04:04:25 PM
That might work.  Still would require an extra step on the part of the customer (opening the attachment), but better than making him re-email it.

I'll give that some thought.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Including formatting in Do-More emails
Post by: ATU on August 05, 2020, 05:17:39 PM
I thought you could use HTML tags directly without an attachment. I get ads all the time with no attachment, but have a doctype as HTML. How do they do that?
Title: Re: Including formatting in Do-More emails
Post by: ADC Product Engineer on August 06, 2020, 07:56:06 AM
I think your issue is not having the !DOCTYPE set.

https://www.emailonacid.com/blog/article/email-development/which-code-should-i-include-in-every-email/ 
Title: Re: Including formatting in Do-More emails
Post by: Controls Guy on August 06, 2020, 01:31:56 PM
Thanks, PE.   I'll give that a try.