Stationary

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My stationary appears when I'm composing a message, but it does show to the
receiver. My messages, on darker stationary, use white text. My contacts
can't read the message, the text or stationary doesn't show.

How do I change this?

Terri
 
Terri said:
My stationary appears when I'm composing a message, but it does show to the
receiver. My messages, on darker stationary, use white text. My contacts
can't read the message, the text or stationary doesn't show.

How do I change this?

Terri
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Send in plain text or at least use standard colors if you must use html
(black font, white background). You have no control over how the
recipients are viewing your emails - if they have their mail program to
read only in plain text or don't have the same font on their system (if
you're using a fancy font for instance) then they won't see all your
formatting anyway.

This is one of the main reasons not to use stationary. Another is that
if your recipients are on dialup, using html greatly increases the size
of your emails.


Malke
 
Malke said:
Send in plain text or at least use standard colors if you must use html
(black font, white background). You have no control over how the
recipients are viewing your emails - if they have their mail program to
read only in plain text or don't have the same font on their system (if
you're using a fancy font for instance) then they won't see all your
formatting anyway.

This is one of the main reasons not to use stationary. Another is that
if your recipients are on dialup, using html greatly increases the size
of your emails.


Malke
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Thank you for taking the time to answer. It has helped alot.

Why do they even offer stationary if your contacts can't veiw it..lol Just
kidding.

Thanks again.

Terri
 
Terri said:
Thank you for taking the time to answer. It has helped alot.

Why do they even offer stationary if your contacts can't veiw it..lol Just
kidding.
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I suppose they offer stationery because some people like it and if those
folks are sending only to other people using the same Outlook Express
(or Windows Mail) then they don't know whether their emails are
unreadable or not. And if you use a fairly "normal" stationery, font and
color scheme, most people can read it. To give you an example, one of my
clients always uses the "Clear Day" stationery. His emails come into my
Thunderbird email client on Linux as a regular email with a little
square called "Clear Day" at the top. On Thunderbird on this MacBook, I
just get his regular emails (or maybe he's stopped using that
stationery, I don't know).

Of course, it could also be that Windows Mail doesn't do stationery very
well; I don't really know. I just know the good workaround I gave you. ;-)


Malke
 
Windows Mail supports stationery just as OE did / does. There are hundreds
of thousands of users that use stationery in email.

steve
 
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