use-livecode Digest, Vol 163, Issue 7

[Chris]

The revMail command is the same as calling a MailTo URL and so that 
technique is limited by the email client's implementation of MailTo 
which don't support the passing of HTML.

The best I have found is this ...

http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/13197-how-do-i-create-an-html-e-mail

  ... which works. It just requires you to setup and use Thunderbird 
because that client includes a little helper app inside the package that 
accepts additional parameters.

I too would appreciate other suggestions. Please share !

Note that the other way to go is to get one of the SMTP libraries and 
communicate directly with the server. In that case, you assemble 
everything (eg the MIME type) and send it over. Authentication can be a 
challenge.

On 4/4/17 11:10 AM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:28:29 +0000
> From: Bob Sneidar<bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Embed HTML in email
> Message-ID:<9F89AE01-75C8-4B6B-87EC-1D7CEDC47B59 at iotecdigital.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi all.
>
> I am trying to compile some basic table data and create an email with that table in the body, however, I am running into the whole tab stop issue where any data that extends beyong the default tab stop causes all the "columns" to move to the right.
>
> So I thought I would try to embed the table as HTML, but of course the HTML shows up as HTML in the body, and not the rendered version. So how can I embed the HTML in the body in such a way so as to have the table data rendered as an html table?
>
> I am prepared to hear "You cannot do that."
>
> Bob S