Problems with sending a email

Hello Ian,

What about the background not even showing up in Hotmail/Yahoo when previewing
the email????? The images appear just fine, but the background colors are
missing(the overall page background and the table colors).....

> steve grosz wrote:
>
>> Ok, basically I'm generating a .htm file with CF info and saving the
>> file with <cfsavecontent>
>>
>> That file gets generated just fine, I can pull it up online in the
>> folder it was saved to, and it looks perfect.
>>
>> I then send it out by:
>>
>> <cfmail to="#arguments.mail#"
>> from="info@site.com"
>> username="user"
>> password="password"
>> subject="Tournament Confirmation"
>> mailerid="site.com"
>> charset="utf-8"
>> type="html">
>> <cfinclude template="../EventEmail/confirmEmail.htm">
>> </cfmail>
>> The email gets delivered just fine, in most cases. In Outlook it
>> asks me if I want to download the pictures, which it does, and all
>> looks fine until I try to print it. There isn't a background....what
>> happened to the background color??
>>
>> Same thing in Hotmail/MSN/Yahoo.....the background color doesn't come
>> across at all, so the mail looks odd.
>>
>> I have the <img> tags set like <IMG
>> src=" http://www.site.com/images/logo1.gif"> and they appear fine,
>> just not the background.
>>
>> Am I missing something here? I know I've received emails from other
>> companies that have full color backgrounds......how is this done??
>>
> I don't know about Outlook, but I presume it can be the same as the
> Internet Explorer browser I expect you are using and that Outlook
> probably taps to render HTML content. When printing a web page, which
> is all Hotmail, MSN and Yahoo are, the default print configuration is
> to *NOT* print background colors or images. An ink saving default.
> You have to change this in your print preferences in the browser to
> get the results you want.
>