How do I create an HTML email message?

External Since: Aug 15, 2007 Posts: 15

Outlook 2003, on an XP machine, in Internet mode.

When I look:ed at the source of an HTML email that was sent to me, it
started:
<html>
<head>

and ended

</div>
</html>

I have a simple html file that I use to post announcements on Craigslist,
and I'd like to use it in the body of an email and have it go out as an HTML
file. I sent it to myself as a test, and the message had the text
<htm>
<head>
This is the head
</head>
</html>

and when I view the source of that test mesage, this is the source:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3354" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
<P><html></P>
<P><head></P>
<P>This is the head</P>
<P></head></html></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

No. I just want the message to say
This is the head.

So, how do I get send a message so that it gets transmitted as HTML, not
text?

I've tried various combinations of default message formats in the Options
dialog box, but none of them seem to matter. Is it somewhere else?

External Since: Jan 25, 2008 Posts: 82

Margaret Bartley, you wrote on Fri, 5 Sep 2008 01:29:58 -0700:

> So, how do I get send a message so that it gets transmitted as HTML, not
> text?

Open a new html mail, go to

Insert |File

select your html-file, click the little arrow on the insert button and
select the option "Insert as text".

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