want to generate html formatted email that supports outlook?

[rajeshkannan sella]

Hi Friends,
I want to generate html formatted email using java that will be supported in outlook, actually i have tried org.apache.commons.mail.HtmlEmail still it fails for outlook.

Help me

Thanks
Rajesh

[Ulf Dittmer]

What, exactly, do you mean by "fail"? What did you try, and how did or didn't it work? TellTheDetails

[rajeshkannan sella]

Sorry.

Im getting html formatted email in gmail, hotmail etc.but for outlook the mail is still text/plain.
The source code is

 package com.sa.ldg.email;
import org.apache.commons.mail.EmailException;
import org.apache.commons.mail.HtmlEmail;

import com.sa.ldg.config.ConfigReaderException;
public class SendEmail {

public void main(String args[]) throws EmailException, ConfigReaderException
{
	  // Create the email message
	 EMailUtil util = new EMailUtil("agencyAlert");
	  HtmlEmail email = new HtmlEmail();
	  email.setHostName(util.getHostName());
	  email.addTo("[e-mail]", "Vidyut soft");
	  email.setFrom("[e-mail]", "Me");
	  email.setSubject("Test email with inline image");
	  
	  // embed the image and get the content id
	  /*URL url = new URL("http://www.apache.org/images/asf_logo_wide.gif");
	  String cid = email.embed(url, "Apache logo");*/
	  String message ="test mail	  http://www.gmail.com";
	  // set the html message
	  email.setHtmlMsg(message);

	  // set the alternative message
	  //email.setTextMsg("Your email client does not support HTML messages");

	  // send the email
	  email.send();
}

}
   

[rajeshkannan sella]

Hope my previous post has details, so that you provide sume suggestion.

Thanks
Rajesh

[Ulf Dittmer]

That email doesn't seem to have any HTML ...

Make sure that Outlook isn't set to ignore HTML content, or that it's not stripped out by the target mail server.

[rajeshkannan sella]

String message ="test mail http://www.gmail.com";

the url will be treated as hyperlink when its a html email.so it works well as htnl formatted in googlemail,hot mail etc.but for out look its just a plain text

[Rob Spoor]

Make it explicit:

String message = "test mail      <a href=\"http://www.gmail.com\">http://www.gmail.com</a>";

Apparently gmail is smarter than Outlook.

[rajeshkannan sella]

Thanks for the suggestion
i tried the code you suggested still its a plain text email

[Ulf Dittmer]

rajeshkannan sella wrote: String message ="test mail http://www.gmail.com";

That doesn't make it an HTML mail. Gmail simply renders any HTTP URLs as clickable links, that's all.

I'm not familiar with that Apache library, but this extensive tutorial with many code examples shows how to create HTML mails using JavaMail.

[Paul Clapham]

When I use my personal web-based e-mail account to send a message like that to my work e-mail account, Outlook doesn't recognize that piece of text as a URL and doesn't render it as a link.

So like everyone already said, that's what Outlook does with text e-mails. Send an HTML e-mail if that's what you want.

[Ulf Dittmer]

One more thing to try: make sure the HTML is well-formed - header, body, HTML tags etc.

[rajeshkannan sella]

For html formatted email we have a class called org.apache.commons.mail.HtmlEmail. im using that even though im not getting a html formatted email in outlook.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Just because there's a classes called "HtmlEmail" doesn't mean that it'll work with incorrect HTML.

[rajeshkannan sella]

email.setHtmlMsg(message); 

This code makes message body html formatted as per API reference

[Lewin Chan]

rajeshkannan sella wrote:

email.setHtmlMsg(message); 

This code makes message body html formatted as per API reference

I would try following the example from http://commons.apache.org/email/apidocs/org/apache/commons/mail/HtmlEmail.html; which constructs an actual HTML message, tags and all before submitting to HtmlEmail.

It seems somewhat optimistic to assume to assume that HtmlEmail can actually mark up what you have submitted as HTML (sure it might be add a couple of tags around of your text; but I would be pretty surprised if there was a full on text parser in it that understood when to make <a> tags and the like).

Try downloading the source to commons email and look at the source to HtmlEmail.

L

[rajeshkannan sella]

Thanks for the help.now i can able to generate html formatted email with the use Patterns