"Jeremy Olmstead" <jolmstea***@-charter.net> wrote in message
news:Xns97B282F2E6231jolmsteadcharternet@216.170.153.136...
>I have defined a promo.html file that contains the html of an e-mail I
> want to send.  What's happening is in the style section of the file
> it is dropping the "." on class names and therefore losing some of the
> css styling.  For example, in promo.html,
> class names are defined as:
>
> .blue { color:blue; }
>
> Then when it is received as an e-mail the code then shows:
>
> blue { color:blue; }
>
> The missing dot causes the styling to render incorrectly.  Does anybody
> know how this is happening?
>
> Below are the main snippets (I removed lines that shouldn't have any
> bearing on the outcome for breivity) of code  I am using to generate the
> mailing.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Olmstead
>
> var objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
> var fileName = objFSO.OpenTextFile("D:\\InetPub\\WWWroot\\promos
> \\promo.html", 1);
> promoText = fileName.ReadAll();
> fileName.Close();
> while (!promoEmails.EOF) {
>  var objCDO = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message");
>  var theName = promoEmails.Fields.Item("ContactName");
>  promoText = promoText.replace("*name*", theName);
>  objCDO.HTMLBody = promoText;
>  objCDO.Send();
>  promoText = promoText.replace(theName, "*name*");
>  promoEmails.MoveNext();
>  objCDO = null;
> }

> You're lucky that's all that's happening.  . at the beginning of a line
> tells SMTP that it's the end of the message, I bet that something in between
> you and the SMTP server knows this and is compensating by removing the dot.
> The way I have gotten around this in the past is to escape . with two dots
> (..).  This won't render correctly in your content directly, but it should
> allow the SMTP server (assuming it does not get stripped by other software
> on its way) to ignore the leading .
>
> Another workaround may be to reference an external style sheet in the HTML,
> instead of inlining a <style> tag.  Or using IDs (#) instead of classes (.).
>
> A
>
>
>
>
> "Jeremy Olmstead" <jolmstea***@-charter.net> wrote in message
> news:Xns97B282F2E6231jolmsteadcharternet@216.170.153.136...
> >I have defined a promo.html file that contains the html of an e-mail I
> > want to send.  What's happening is in the style section of the file
> > it is dropping the "." on class names and therefore losing some of the
> > css styling.  For example, in promo.html,
> > class names are defined as:
> >
> > .blue { color:blue; }
> >
> > Then when it is received as an e-mail the code then shows:
> >
> > blue { color:blue; }
> >
> > The missing dot causes the styling to render incorrectly.  Does anybody
> > know how this is happening?
> >
> > Below are the main snippets (I removed lines that shouldn't have any
> > bearing on the outcome for breivity) of code  I am using to generate the
> > mailing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeremy Olmstead
> >
> > var objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
> > var fileName = objFSO.OpenTextFile("D:\\InetPub\\WWWroot\\promos
> > \\promo.html", 1);
> > promoText = fileName.ReadAll();
> > fileName.Close();
> > while (!promoEmails.EOF) {
> >  var objCDO = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message");
> >  var theName = promoEmails.Fields.Item("ContactName");
> >  promoText = promoText.replace("*name*", theName);
> >  objCDO.HTMLBody = promoText;
> >  objCDO.Send();
> >  promoText = promoText.replace(theName, "*name*");
> >  promoEmails.MoveNext();
> >  objCDO = null;
> > }

"Justin Piper" <jpi***@bizco.com> wrote in
news:op.s8p1ffwccs3d1w@luxembourg.psg.bizcotech.com:

> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:52:58 -0500, Jeremy Olmstead 
> <jolmstea***@-charter.net> wrote:
>
>> I have defined a promo.html file that contains the html of an e-mail
>> I want to send.  What's happening is in the style section of the file
>> it is dropping the "." on class names and therefore losing some of
>> the css styling.  For example, in promo.html,
>> class names are defined as:
>
> Are you looking at it in a web-based email client? They have been
> known to  mangle style sheets to prevent the message from making
> arbitrary changes  to the page.
>
>     .blue { color:blue; }
>
> may not work, but
>
>     span.blue { color:blue; }
>
> might. It's also worth mentioning that Gmail doesn't allow stylesheets
> at  all. You have to use the style attribute there.
>
> This is off-topic for the group, so you'll probably get better, more 
> specific advice from the css-discuss mailing list. You can sign up at
> http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d/. They also have a
> Wiki  with a page that covers CSS in email at 
> http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StyleInEmail that is worth
> reading.
>