html in email and attachment
 

I'm hoping for a bit of assistance...

In setting up an email for a failed build, I've come across some quirky behavior. My plan was to include an html formatted email message providing a link to the build log, along with that same build log as an .html attachment.

If I set up the email to have a plain text message along with the .html file attached, everything works fine. Likewise, if I send a message with html formatting, but no .html file attachment, the html formatting works fine. When I include both the html formatted message and the .html attachment, I get the .html attachment, but the html formatted message displays the html code instead of the formatted message.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mark

I generated a similar test email and it was displayed properly with Outlook Express 6. I didn't check other email client applications. I guess it depends on what email client you are using (and how they handle different mime encodings, etc).

Kevin

Thanks for your reply. I'm currently using Outlook 2003. I've sent it to a few different web-based email clients as well, the outcome is the same.

Any additional thoughts?

Try it with this patch (extract to your VisBuildPro install path): http://www.kinook.com/Download/VisBuildNet.zip

I also had simular problems so I just wrote my own e-mail step. I use it for completion and error e-mails. if you select only from '' then go to build pro and click past it will create the step for you. Hope this helps


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Thanks for the replies.

I loaded Visual Build using the older .dll that you provided. The html message formats as expected in outlook 2003. When I include an attachment (.html or .txt) in Visual Build, however, it fails to be sent. This happens no matter if I send an html message or a plain text message. In other words, the file attachment functionality is not working in outlook 2003 with the older .dll file (version 5.2.0.0).

Edit: When I say "it fails to be sent" I mean the message body is sent, but without the attachment coming along for the ride.

Let's try this one more time (Outlook seems to be rather particular about how messages are formatted). There is an updated zip; please download it once more and see if it does the trick.

It now works in Outlook 2003! I can now send an html formatted message and include an attachment. Thank you so much!

Mark