Sending html emails.

Looking for a good solution for sending html emails.

[OneTooMany]

I am trying to find out the best solution for sending html emails to our customers. I would like to store the emails in a database and build a simple front end interface to send them.

Anyone got any good references for doing this? We primarily use VB, Javascript, C++, and MS Exchange email server.

[ShawnR]

One option is to just use Microsoft Office mail merge. Am I missing the point?

Shawn

[dmorison]

Hi,

I think you're probably looking for an automated cool-funky solution - but if you're looking to prepare a HTML email using more advanced HTML than Outlook will allow then one way is to create the page on your web server, just as any normal web page.

Then, view in Internet Explorer (reasonably recent version) and select "File -> Send -> Page by Email".

Thinking out loud - you could set-up a distribution list server that received the page you sent via Internet Explorer and forwarded it to your customers...

Cheers.

[Mardi_Gras]

A good solution might be to search for "bulk e-mail programs" or "bulk e-mail software" and review all of the options open to you. But since it sounds like you have some reasonable programming skills at your disposal, you might find something better suited to your needs at Hotscripts.com or one of the other script sites.

[edited by: heini at 7:22 pm (utc) on April 27, 2003]
[edit reason] member request / cheers MG [/edit]