[TYPO3] Direct mail problems

[Ivan Kartolo]

Brian Bendtsen wrote:
> Rob De Vries skrev:
>> Brian Bendtsen wrote:
>>
>>> 2.
>>> This is really weird, my emails are not shown as they should and this 
>>> is probably because the right stylesheet is not applied.
>>
>>
>> shamefull copy/paste of Christoher's reply on this subject a week ago:
>>
>> In fact, placing css in the head will fail in most (all?) webmail
>> systems--since when viewing a message in a webmail client, the client
>> has control of the head section of the document. If I remember
>> correctly, the only webmail system that keeps your styles is Yahoo--I
>> believe it renames them though!
>>
>> Since html emails usually /need/ to be quite ugly in terms of code
>> (layouts effectively /must/ be (a) very simple, or (b) table-based),
>> you can use this strategy to increase the odds of your css styles
>> being available: place a <style ... > element INSIDE the body element
>> instead of putting it in the head. As far as I know, tjos wprls with
>> all major desktop email clients and with most webmail systems (Gmail,
>> for example, allows only very  limited use of CSS).
>>
>> Dont try anything too complicated though--Microsoft made html email
>> rendering much /worse/ this year [1].
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Christopher Torgalson http://www.typo3apprentice.com/ [1] 
>> http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/01/microsoft_takes_email_design_b.html 
>>
>>
>>
>> ps: it is better to copy somethig good than to create something bad ;)
>>
> Hi
> 
> And thanks, it helped to put the css inside of the <style> tag. I have a 
> problem with images used in the style tag. They are not included.
> 
> css example:
> 
> .header {
> background-image: url('gfx/headerbg.gif');
> }
> 
> When the mail arives the it looks like
> 
> 
> .header {
> background-image: url('fileadmin/templates/gfx/headerbg.gif');
> }
> 
> 
> Is there a way to tell the direct mail module to prefix the image path 
> with the full url?
> 
> /Brian

Hi Brian,

it's not very wise to use CSS in a Newsletter, since every email clients 
have their own way to render the HTML.
I've written my experiences on this matter in my blog [1]. Maybe you'll 
call it a "stone-age" way of producing a HTML, but at least it's robust 
enough.

[1] http://kartolo.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/html-newsletter/

ivan