Creating e-mails with FP (FrontPage 2002)

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The latest issue of WWW mentioned that the e-mail was created with FrontPage. How is this done? Can you use FP as your e-mail editor?

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Just a wild guess: maybe the message was composed in FrontPage, and then used as stationery by an HTML-aware mailer.

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Good guess. Is there a book or article on how to design stationery in FP and then use it in Outlook?

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I did some by trial and error a while ago… I remember some difficulty locating the correct stationery folder to save into, but the actual page design is just HTML. The

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It really depends on how you end up sending the mail out. I’ve never had a lot of luck sending through Outlook but you can downloads heaps of free apps to send out mass e-mail using HTML pages. You just create a webpage in Frontpage to look exactly like you want your e-mail to look in a user’s inbox and send that instead of typing your text into the body of a message. I use a program called GroupMail (http://www.infacta.com) that works great for a pretty reasonable price.

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