What does "Send as HTML" mean?

To understand the difference, let’s send the message <H3>Hello there!</H3> (written exactly so). This is a simple HTML statement that prints the sentence “Hello there!” in bold. <H3> and </H3> are so called tags and mark the beginning and the end of the sentence in bold.

If you don’t specify “Send as HTML” , your recepient will get exactly what you have written; he/she will see the tags in his/her email and nothing in bold type.

If you check the “Send as HTML” checkbox, your recepient will see Hello there!, without tags.

In HTML you can specify various fonts, tables, pictures etc. etc. ; your email will appear as a web page. Try sending the following code:

<TABLE BORDER=1 bgcolor=”#ff0000”>
<TR>
<TD>Today:</TD>
<TD>Soup</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>Tomorrow:</TD>
<TD>Meat</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>