The only advice I’d like to give you is to insert the images used in the composition of your template directly into the body of the mail (using base64 encoding): įirst of all, it is necessary to prepare a textual model of the body of our email with some placeholders -Īnd again, I have used the “ Substitute” command to dynamically replace its value: Substitute ( $template_content Įt voila! The result of the model with all the values replaced will have a structure similar to the one you see below (with the expected parts, replaced by our FileMaker script). Elsewhere, online, you can surely find many ideas on how to design an excellent and attractive e-mail template. In this brief guide, I will not explain how to style an email template using HTML. To help you better understand how to implement it, I’ll explain in detail below. The email or the body of the call must be composed following the MIME-Version 1.0 standard. To create an email that respects these characteristics, it is necessary to respect some rules of composition of the message that you want to send via “ InsertFromURL” (using FileMaker).
The new protocols supported by the “ InsertFromURL” instruction will, therefore, allow you to interact differently with an SMTP server by extending what was previously not possible with the “Send Mail” command: sending e-mails in HTML format. Now, with the new version FileMaker 18, the set of protocols available in the “ InsertFromURL” instruction has been enriched by adding the SMTP and SMTPS protocols (among others). In FileMaker 17, without plugins, it was only possible to send email in plain text format, using the SMTP server sending options that were available in the “ Send Mail” instruction. I’ll cover what this means, how to use this new functionality, and use FileMaker 18 to send basic HTML email that looks like this: This requires HTML, and it’s not as simple to build and send emails this way.įileMaker 18 has introduced a built-in way to send email in HTML format, using SMTP protocols. Sometimes, in addition to simple text, we want to enrich our emails with graphical contents and attachments, making it more pleasant for those who receive it or giving a more cohesive image to our brand. Just open a mail client, write a message and press a button to virtually send a letter or message to a recipient. Email is one of the simplest tools used to communicate and send information.
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