written in html/newsletter marketing

[Guest]

Im trying email marketing at the moment.

 

So i tried writing the email in code & on the newsletter it looked fine on the preview mode.

 

However when i recieved it all i could see was the code??

 

How come the images & links were'nt together.

 

This is what i received

 

<p><A HREF="prolab/n/large/2/-/2/72/kg.html"><img src="http://www.sportsnutritionsuperstore.co.uk/images/prolab_n_large_index.jpg" style="border-style: none" width="600" height="100" style="border-style: none"></A><p></p>

<p><A HREF="bsn/fight/stack.html"><img src="http://www.sportsnutritionsuperstore.co.uk/images/bsn fight stack banner.jpg" style="border-style: none" width="600" height="100" style="border-style: none"></A><p></p>

<p><A HREF="reflex-instant/whey/2/25/kg.html"><img src="http://www.sportsnutritionsuperstore.co.uk/images/reflex_instant_whey_index.jpg" style="border-style: none" width="600" height="100" style="border-style: none"></A><p></p>

 

Instead of 3 great images with links to the site!

[MrPhil]

The newsletter is an email sent in "HTML" format. That's the code you see. If the recipient's email isn't set up to process HTML, you'll see the HTML code instead. Can you tell your email system to allow HTML emails? Maybe it can't, and you need to switch to another email reader. A lot of "web" email readers can't handle HTML, if that's how you're reading your email. You may need to download your emails to a PC-based system such as Thunderbird or Outlook.

 

If you know for a fact that your email reader is able to handle HTML emails, then I'd guess that one of two things is happening:

1) osC is actually sending all emails as plain text, and doesn't understand when you put HTML code into an email

2) your server's outbound email handler isn't set up to handle HTML-encoded emails, and mangles them into plain text