Newsletter link/clickadds date to the mail client calendar

[tolaez]

Hi,

Want to email clients a promo emailer to advertise a specific event.

And there would be link within the emailer on which they click and which adds this date into their mail client calendar

Can I target multiple mail clients or do I have to tailor this to just one mail client eg. outlook...

I am sure this is possible although i have never seen it done before

Anyone knows how do I go about this?

Many THANKS!

[bill]

There's no way to determine a recipient's e-mail client. If you want universal compatibility then use ASCII text.

[tolaez]

Thank you bill,

but if I know clients that I target use Outlook, how do I go about this pls?

Also , will there be any issues with different versions of outlook?

MANY THANKS!

[phranque]

look for information about "iCalendar", which is supported by outlook, and you will probably find your solution.

[bill]

There certainly are differences. Outlook and Outlook Express are two very different applications. Outlook Express doesn't have a calendar app, so you might run into trouble there. Also keep in mind that Outlook 2007 is now using MS Word rendering engine [webmasterworld.com]. That may limit the code you can use.

[phranque]

There certainly are differences. Outlook and Outlook Express are two very different applications. Outlook Express doesn't have a calendar app, so you might run into trouble there.

i don't think it matters if your email client supports a calendar application.
what matters is what happens when you click on a link or attachment with a text/calendar MIME content type or a .ics file extension.
it should bring up the (hopefully)calendar application you assigned to this type of data.

for example, if you email client is not web enabled you can typically click on an .html "link" and it will show the url in your web client.
same thing technically...

[tolaez]

many thnaks for all your replys guys.. i will investigate