SCHWIF2004
This free script allows you to send complex HTML via Entourage. It will
- Take an arbitrary HTML file and embed it in an outgoing Entourage message
- Better still, it will parse the HTML for links to files (images, etc), isolating duplicates…
- Attach the file to the message with base64 encoding (using UNIX magic to guess the MIME type)…
- then rewrite the HTML to reference the attachment rather than the local file.
- If you run the script on a draft message, whatever text you type into the message body will be used as the plain text alternative to the HTML (for non-HTML compatible clients).
It is based on Paul Berkowitz's script 'Send Complex HTML X'.
System requirements
- Mac OS X 10.3 or later
- Entourage X/2004
Download the latest version (0.5)
Download the previous version (0.4.1), just in case it doesn't work for you.
Support
This script is now unsupported, since I really don't have the time any more! However, I will continue to maintain it
| Version history | |
|---|---|
| 0.5 | No changes from b2 |
| 0.5b2 | Fixed a bug that would incorrectly warn OS X 10.3 users they couldn't use the script |
| 0.5b1 | Added support for background images referenced using attributes in the body tag or in stylesheets (not 'background-url' though) Fixed a problem with Exchange server address books following previous Entourage update Still no support for non-ASCII characters in From/To/Subject fields, etc. Sorry. I'm working on it Improved the documentation slightly Added a warning for pre OS X 10.3 users |
| 0.4.1 | Fixed bug affecting messages that referenced no other files Fixed bug that stopped ActiveX param tags from being rewritten |
| 0.4.0 | Message parser rewritten for greater speed Can now cope with paragraph returns in the middle of tags (typical of Nvu output) Unquoted image names won't produce errors File URLs with encoded characters now parsed correctly Hopefully fixed the Communigate 'bloat' problem JavaScript now ignored |
| 0.3.0 | Now validates to MIME 1.0 Compatible with QuickMail Pro Server |
| 0.2.3 | Fixed a bug where ----AppleScriptBreakHTML-- would appear at the bottom of messages with no embedded files |
| 0.2.2 | Fixed a bug where multiple recipients wouldn't be listed correctly in message headers |
| 0.2.1 | Minor update to stop messages being rewritten by overzealous mail servers |
| 0.2 | Script can now use files stored anywhere in the file system, not just those in the same folder as the HTML file Script will now rewrite links in ActiveX controls (Flash, Shockwave, RealVideo, QuickTime and Windows Media) Script now only adds one version of each referenced file to the email, rather than once for every occurrence. Mail, Netscape and other email clients will now display message correctly Script will now ignore all links to externally hosted files, not just those referenced with http:// |
| 0.1 | Initial release |
Last updated: November 14, 2007
Comments
Hi, I'm trying to use the script in Entourage 2004 (on OS X 10.4.9) and getting this error:
Your message does not conform to RFC2822 standard
Could not sent mail.
Any ideas for what might be going wrong?
Jennifer
Posted by Jennifer Berger | April 8, 2007 11:16 PM | Reply
It means your mail server doesn't like the message and you probably won't be able to use the script. In particular, the mail server doesn't seem to like MIME messages since RFC2822 is the base specification for text emails, to which MIME - which is necessary for HTML emails - is an extension.
Posted by Rob Buckley
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April 9, 2007 9:55 AM |
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I'm running in to similar issues to Jennifer: email servers like Earthlink don't like emails generated by this script, but they are ok with complex html emails from Outlook. Have you looked in to why they work from Outlook but not from your script? If not, I'll do some poking around, as I love this script.
Dan
Posted by Dan Pouliot | April 9, 2007 10:46 PM | Reply
I have, but it's simply too much effort to get it to work with every possible email server. It would also probably require a whole load of AppleScript Extensions installed for the script to work, since I suspect encoding, line lengths, etc are all part of the problem and trying to write AppleScript native routines would make the script too slow to be usable. But anyone's welcome to try.
If you are having problems with your email server, there are also plenty of bulk mailer applications that can compose HTML mail: this script is merely intended as an aid, not something for production workflows.
Posted by Rob Buckley
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April 10, 2007 6:25 AM |
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I used the script successfully with Entourage however, the message seems to continuously be sent daily and recipients are not happy. Could this be the script or other issues?
Posted by Wes | October 15, 2007 2:36 PM | Reply
That would be 'other issues'
Posted by Rob Buckley
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November 14, 2007 4:02 PM |
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