E-Vite Sending Guide using Outlook and Mail Applications

After many customer requests, we provide an E-vite Sending Guide for mail clients like Outlook and Mac Mail.

The most common mistake users of Outlook make is to FORWARD an E-vite received from their designer. The moment you do this, Outlook intercepts all the HTML code, and adds its own styles and formatting into the e-mail, i.e. your designer and your clients will not be very happy with you.

Luckily there is an easy solution, albeit a bit tricky to manoeuvre as there are a few steps required:

Resend

Using the RESEND function of Outlook and many other programs, this problem can be resolved.

Solution Steps

• Open the E-mail message in its own window (NOT the preview pane)
• Select the E-mail message’s Menu item:  Actions => Resend Message…
  The system will now complain that you are not the original sender, don’t worry, we fix this in the next step
• Click on the View => FROM: field to make the FROM: field visible. Delete the e-mail address written in the FROM: field and leave it blank
• Change the SUBJECT, TO: and/or overtype any text in the BODY you need to change (use delete/backspace at your own risk, as overtype is the best option, to protect the original HTML formatting)
• Press SEND

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots from various version of mail to help guide you through the solution steps.

Outlook

OSX Mail

OSX Mail