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Re: Complex html Email

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Subject: Re: Complex html Email
From: Norman Palardy <npalardy at great-white-software dot com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:47:59 -0600
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On 29-Mar-08, at 7:25 AM, Jeff Ayling wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone had any success sending a complex html email via MBS
> NSMailDelivery?
>
> I'd love to use NSMailDelivery as the user isn't required to enter an
> outgoing mailserver (as long as mail has been configured in OSX mail)
> however I'm having trouble sending a complex html message. Just a
> table and font tags seem to be enough to break it. Can anyone explain
> why this is?
>
> Alternatively triggering OSX Mail via Applescript could be a solution
> but has anyone tried to send an outgoing html message via Applescript
> - seems close to impossible surprisingly.
>
> Any thoughts on other ways of picking up mailserver settings to make
> it as easy as possible for the user?

You can
The dictionary for Mail has all the account information but some  
portions are understandably read only (account type - imap/pop) and  
others are not readable at all (the password)

If you Google for "applescript os x mail" you'll find a bunch of  
scripts that might serve as starting points for you

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