Hi all,

we're just sending a few emails with the core bulk newsetter tool under the admin pages, but I've hit a problem I can't seem to resolve.  Any images we insert in the newsletters don't come through in Outlook 07.  Viewing the source of the received emails, the standard link setup in the newsletter tool has been converted similar to:

<Base Href='www.domain.com'><p><img height="86" width="279" alt="" src="/Portals/12/logo.gif" />

and shows as a missing image.  Has anyone a work around for this?  I'm now not sure if this is an outlook issue, or the way the newsletters are being created as I have a client who is complaining of the same issue.

Also, can anyone suggest a good alternative newsletter module?  one where it's possible to save 'templates' and do include 'mail merge' fields would be smashing!

Thanks heaps,

Reuben.

Thanks for your thoughts Chas,

however when you add an image via gallery, the full path is inserted by default (so you don't need to manually edit the source).  When you receive the email you'll see from the code snippet in my first thread that a base url is included, this is supposed to tell outlook what the base/root url for all links is, so the image source should then be from that base url.  In this instance the base url doesn't work.  I'm just wondering if anyone knows a work around that works for office 07 products as I suspect office 07 is no longer working with the poorly formed html created by the newsletter tool (which contains no head/body/html tags according to the html source I receive from test emails).  This then stops all sorts of standard html features from working I.e. we also copy some css styles in the newsletter via html and although you can see these styles in the email source when it's received, the styles aren't actually used/visible in the email.  One could say this is due to the styles not being in the head tags, but previously (pre office 07) this has worked and we've been able to setup all sorts of styles by pasting styles in the source pre sending the newsletter.

Core team (and other Newsletter module dev guys):  Wouldn't it be nice to be able to select a style sheet from your file system for use with newsletter(s) when you send them.  In this one could configure backgrounds & colours etc etc etc, this could then be sent in the head of the newsletter, just a thought).

Anyway, if anyone else has some thoughts they could share I'd truely appreciate it.

Thanks,

Reuben.