display an eml message either using FileExplorer or not

[olu]

hi is there any way to view emails(eml file) ?

[Bruce]

Hi Olu,

EML's contain a lot of fields about the email. Most of them are test though, so are easy to display. I presume you're asking about the HTML field inside the EML?

If so, then yes, use File Explorer to view it.

cheers
Bruce

[olu]

hi sorry just looked at the post i did sent and i think i have written it wrongly but what i was really after was i wanted to view eml files over the web. The idea was to create a webmail program to logon and look up mails. Is this possible? using nettalk web server. I have been able to go has far has able to get the mails but the only problem is displaying the file has a html file or is it possible to use file explorer in web server?
 

[Bruce]

No, there's no point using FE to display the EML on the server, since there won't be anyone there to see it.

You don't need to "display" HTML at all - that's what browsers do - so what you'll want to do is split the EML into it's fundamental parts, then push the parts into a group, or file, or whatever, and then just make a form with those fields. The Html part of the email can be sent "as is" - just make sure the field is set on the form to "allow html".

cheers
Bruce

[olu]

Thanks bruce, yes i did do that and on some of my messages was displayed perfectly but others that had tables etc just was not displaying properly and was all over the place any advice on how i can make this work?

[Bruce]

Hi Olu,

I guess you need to look at the html that's inside the ones that displayed badly.

If it displays badly then I guess it's applying the wrong styles to the html or something like that.

Cheers
Bruce

[olu]

thanks bruce, yes i see what you are saying because i think my css file are trying to display the html files to my settings and not to the generated html codes so where do i turn off css lookup just for one form i have tried taking out all the css classes field and replace with '' in the form but that dosent do it.