{"id":7437,"date":"2021-10-18T00:24:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T00:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=7437"},"modified":"2021-10-18T06:44:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T06:44:41","slug":"maxlauncher-and-sending-html-emails-via-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=7437","title":{"rendered":"MaxLauncher and sending HTML emails via script"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the previous article MaxLauncher & sending emails in Thunderbird with mailto:<\/a><\/strong> I used my default email application to setup a new Template to send emails. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was able to add a few signatures to in the body of the text so that I could just delete the ones I didn’t want. As well as a note for Attachment if there was one, again, if not required then I’d delete that line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all its easier to delete than to write out fully. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nice thing with the Mailto: approach is that you can use Emojis in the Subject line to make the Topic stand out when sending to others (just remember to save the .ahk script file in encoded UTF-8_BOM instead of the UTF-8 encoding)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So the template can be setup for a few variations but in it it has :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. FROM (my preferred email to send FROM<\/li>
  2. TO prefilled, I can have a couple of Templates for different people I regularly email to & can add CC & BCC if I want<\/li>
  3. In SUBJECT Emoji icons to make email stand out in recipients inbox<\/li>
  4. Start the Body with Dear for standard greeting<\/li>
  5. A note for Attach, this triggers Thunderbird to look for attachment & add yellow highlight bar at bottom<\/li>
  6. A few different simple signatures, I’m personally not keen on images in signatures as they bloat the mail files, so I personally don’t use them. I also have hotkeys to put these in for me if I want. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    So this meets most of my requirements, apart from being able to put HTML into the body of the text as a signature automatically with the mailto: process<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    em1=DingDong@gmail.com\nem2= Trala@pir2.com\nem3= SomeoneElse@gmail.com\nSubj= ?\ufe0fthe tree is green\n\n\n\nBod= The message's first paragraph.`%0ASecond paragraph.`%0AThird Paragraph`%0\nRun, mailto:%em1%?cc=%em2%&cc=%em3%&bcc=%em3%&subject=%Subj%&body=%Bod%       \n\nReturn<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    HTML in Emails & sending via scripts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    So I have the mailto template that I can use with MaxLauncher with Thunderbird , but my formasl signature is a bit of html code with buttons and lots of colours. So I’d like to be able to add HTML. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
    I came across 2 videos, one by Joe Glines and one by Juho Lee, see  below, that allowed you to pre-set up your email and then send it programmatically via running a script. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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