Date: 04/07/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: software, html, spam

This is a really specific question, so I know there's probably a slim chance, but I'm hoping someone here has had experience with trying to send html e-mail from Lotus Notes.

The plan was to put together and html e-mail and save it as "Stationery" (Note's version of a Template) for our sales reps to use to personally send out to individual contacts (rather than blasting SPAM). I didn't look into sending HTML e-mail through Notes (the system our company is all on) until after I put together the design. Now, after researching for a quarter of my workday yesterday, I come up blank. From what I gather, it's not possible to send HTML e-mail through Notes until version 6 (we're on 5), and even then, it requires some major scripting (not my forte, and not ideal for sales reps either!).

Can anyone confirm that it is just not possible, or should I keep researching? Is there third party software that we could use with Notes to do this? And would it break the bank to get it for multiple users (all of our sales reps)?

If the HTML is a no go:
Has anyone had any success using the Table and Import Image features to design e-mail with embedded images, and do e-mail clients outside of Notes handle these e-mails, or do they just break them up into a bunch of attachments?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1092960.html