Email Format (Outlook)

[mattydinx]

Evenin' all,

Just wondering what format you Outlook users send your mail in (or other Mail clients for that matter)

For some reason Outlook defaulted to HTML and because of that I can't ensure consistency in the emails I'm sending out - Bugger.

So I've switched to Plain text - while they look fairly well laid out in Outlook and Mail (mac) they look atrocious for web-based email, i.e Hotmail, normally displaying in Courier or some other horrid, ugly font.

So that leaves Rich Text, but again - I can't guarantee consistency on what the client sees at the other end.

What format do you use?

[hammy]

Mine go out in the default HTML, I always cc to myself on a different email (aol) and comes out alright for me

[mattydinx]

I had to start doing the same.
I've just sent the same email to all my 'standard' email accounts: Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo.

Hotmail and Gmail looked fine, Yahoo took off the font formatting (Arial for comparability) I just don't like serif fonts for email communication

[Danno13]

Use HTML, if the recpient has HTML email it'll look good, otherwise it'll default to plain text. If you start with plain text, then no-one will have the chance of seeing it looking nice!