Attachments, HTML messagesPostCast can send a message in the plain text format, or the HTML format. The program also supports file attachments. File Attachments Enter the path to the file which you want to attach in the message Attach field, in the E-mail Merge program window. Click the right mouse key to open a file dialog. The file will be a MIME Base 64 file encoded, which is the industry standard for binary file attachments.
 HTML messages If you would like your message to look like a web page it would be necessary to create it in your favorite web design program. Save it as a file, then enter its path in the HTML field of the E-mail Merge program window. Click the right mouse key and a file dialog will open up. 
Pictures in HTML messages If you want pictures in your HTML messages, enter their Internet paths into your HTML page. This way the size of your messages will be considerably lower, the messages will travel faster, while the e-mail client would download the essential files automatically, and display them in your message. Tip1 Select Settings from the Tools menu and click the E-mail tab, then the Advanced tab. Activate the 'HTML messages' option, and PostCast will insert a notice into your HTML message, and which will be presented only to those clients whose E-mail programs are incapable of HTML display. This notice would be shown only to them. The others would not be in position to read it. Tip2 The HTML message can contain table column names and the program can import table data as from an ordinary text message. Just enter the field name in between brackets - []. If you have a column in a table named E-Mail, for example, enter [E-Mail] in your HTML page and the program will be aware that it must insert the corresponding value therein. Sending Text and HTML messages as one In order to support older e-mail clients which do not display HTML messages, perhaps you would want to send a common text together with an HTML message. Enter it in the Message Text section of the E-Mail Merge window. The text will be displayed at the head of the message, with the HTML part of the message below it. Signature, Text from File Set Priority Testing Sending messages Mail sending options Advanced sending options Exercise 4: Send personalized e-mail See Also: Extracting data from the web forms Mail Server Execute CGI Message Tags Execute Program Message Tags Scheduler | 
