Part 16: Formatting your email in HTML or text
It's easy to create a plain text, HTML, or multipart alternative message. To start, click on New Mailing from the Mailings tab:
To create a plain text message, just write or paste your text message in the Text Message section. To create an HTML message, write or paste your HTML message in the HTML Message section. If you include both, ListManager will send both as a multipart alternative message, which means that recipients who can see HTML will only see HTML, but those who can't will see the text version.
Be sure that the URLs and links in your html are the full path, not local. For example, a link to one of your graphics should look something like:
<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/banner.gif">
instead of:
<img src="banner.gif">
Important notes
Use a plain text editor to create your message. Do not copy and paste from MS Word, as this may create unreadable characters in your message. Instead, copy your message to a plain text editor such as Notepad, and then copy and paste into the ListManager web interface to send your message.
You can also send your HTML message via email, but please note that many email programs add MIME encoding and other formatting that may interfere with the HTML formatting.
Please also be aware that some email clients are not configured to read HTML mail, and some only recognize limited HTML. Learn more.
For these reasons, we highly recommend that you extensively test your mail before distributing HTML messages to your list.
