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Personalised HTML Emails in Outlook

         

Maynard

4:49 pm on Oct 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi there,

I work for a charity that wants to send an HTML email to around 100 people with a form for them to fill out their details. We have managed to get this to work in Outlook using the webemail.html form as a stationary template. However, we want to personalise the form. This means we want to greet each email (with the form) by their names. How can we do this?

Here is a code snippet:

<html>
<body>
<p>Please spend a couple of minutes filling in your details.</p>
<form action="mailto:info@info.org?subject=Personal Details" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
Title:<select name="Title"><option value="Mr">Mr<option value="Mrs">Mrs<option value="Ms">Ms<option value="Miss">Miss<option value="Dr">Dr<option value="Revd">Revd<option value="Other">Other</select>Other: <input type="text" name="Other"><br><br>
First Name: <input type="text" name="First Name"><br><br>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="Last Name"><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Many thanks,
Maynard.

Mardi_Gras

5:54 pm on Oct 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Which version of Outlook are you using? You can't merge directly in Outlook, but you can create your mail in Word and merge to e-mail. A better solution is to use a dedicated mailer like GroupMail or Mach 5 e-mailer - I believe even the free versions will handle 100 names.

Also remember that not all of your recipients can view HTML mail - Outlook won't alow you to send a text component (multipart) along with your HTML.

Maynard

4:21 pm on Oct 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Thanks Mardi_Gras,

I managed to use mail merge to email. However, the email sent via Word and Outlook arrived as plain text, even though my Outlook is set up to receive and send HTML. How do I mail merge and then email an HTML document from within Word?

Maynard.