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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:45 am Post subject: Constructing E-mail through vb

The sending part is all done. It's the contructing part which is the problem right now. How does one say that some text should be like this or like this or like this? And same thing about Font and Font size?
How to define them? (in the body of the email)

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 2:37 am Post subject:

Another thing; I get a syntax error (missing operator) on this sentence, but I can't find any missing operators:

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IIf(IsNull(rst!GENERELL_B), "", rst!GENERELL_B) & ": " & IIf(IsNull(rst!AB_GENEREL), "", DLookup("[ANALYTTNAV]", "[behandling1_1]", "[behandling1_1].[kode] = " & rst!GENERELL_B))

Error Message:
Run-time error: '3075'

Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression
'[behandling1_1].[kode] ='.

Butt Sniffer Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 1579

are you looking for a specific function or just a general idea?

a general idea: why not put some simple html tags in the email. or something similar, use the bbcode from this forum if you like. just some way that your program knows that this piece of text is different than the next one.

are both the sender and receiver going to be using the same app? or do you need to conform to a certain format? html formatted emails are a pain in the ass to read if your client doesn't support them, in example.

edit: changed embed to put. what happened to the strikethrough tag? i miss it.

Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 8:45 am Post subject:

please, don't design e-mails.. use plain text, unless you are forced by armed marketers and crazed graphic designers.. then use HTML.

I have a graphics dept that wants to send out all e-mails as a big images, so you can see thier particular font and spacing.. just to tell me they will be in late.

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 12:17 am Post subject:

brotherhobbes wrote:
are you looking for a specific function or just a general idea?

I'm looking for a way to make especially bold or enlarged text within the body of an email

brotherhobbes wrote:
are both the sender and receiver going to be using the same app? or do you need to conform to a certain format?

the sender uses lotus notes, but the receiver we wouldn't know so we would need to create a certain format, yes.

Code_Monkey wrote:
please, don't design e-mails.. use plain text, unless you are forced by armed marketers and crazed graphic designers.. then use HTML.

right now I am using plain text...