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Email Flash
The following 4 comments and questions have been sent in. They are listed according to date.
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- Sending Flash via ColdFusion mail
- Worried about Active-X errors
- Wants to send movie to client
- Having problems sending Flash with Outlook
Sending Flash via ColdFusion mail
Question
March 5, 2007
hey- i tried to send the flash movie as a content via cfmail but it's not
worked for me.I am here giving tried code.Please help me out.
if there is any mistake in the below code ,please correct to me.
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CFMAIL TEST
CFMAIL
manu - India
13309
Answer
The principle is really simple. Take the Flash code that you have generated, and everywhere you see # in your flash code, you replace with ##. One place should be the version number: ##version=4,0,0,0. You probably have a higher version than 4. The other two places are for background color. You MUST replace each # with ## or it will not work.
The next thing is to have an absolute link to where your SWF file is located on your server.
MOVIE VALUE="http://www.xxx.com/flash/images/sample.swf"
EMBED SRC="http://www.xxx.com/flash/images/sample.swf"
Then send your code with CFMAIL, as normal. I just tried it to verify that it does work. Note that your email browser must accept HTML to see the Flash.
Worried about Active-X errors
Question
March 13, 2002
I just read your article related to Sending a Flash Movie with ColdFusion Email and I also checked the code provided using
- USA
9371
Answer
I have seen some companies that are worried about viruses block out any ActiveX code, which also includes regular Flash. But I think they are rare. That may be what you ran into with your Outlook Express.
I wasn't aware there were problems with other email accounts, but that may be why Macromedia does not sent Flash in their promotional emails. They usually have a link to go to a site, where Flash is displayed. The HTML used in email browsers is not the same as the standard HTML.
I haven't had heard of any problems from people that I have sent Flash emails, but that doesn't mean that it works in all cases.
If there is concern about clients in a business situation, it might be good to play it safe and avoid Flash in the email. If the Flash movie is simple, you could change it to an animated GIF.
Wants to send movie to client
Question
August 8, 2005
Hi I would like to send a email with flash movie to my client.
my movie is in the following link www.scantrans.ae/Ramesh.swf can you please help me how to send.
When I inserted the html page as signature i am getting following error
: Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page. As a result, the page may not display correctly :
Ramesh - United Arab Emirates
7739
Answer
Your best bet would to be to send the web address to the client and have him to to the page to see the Flash movie. You would be better off the insert the movie in an HTML webpage, along with some explanation. I can access your page, but noting happens when I click on the pictures.
Many of the security functions in email prevent sending Flash because of the fear of viruses. Also, depending on your client's email settings, the movie may not display.
The surest way is to give the link to your webpage or to send the SWF file as an attachment.
Having problems sending Flash with Outlook
Question
December 3, 2004
My question is again similar with Haider. I am facing problems while sending and receiving email containing flash in Microsoft Outlook. I have to change the security settings to send the email. Even to receive an email containing a Flash Movie giving a problem in Outlook. It is giving an ActiveX error. But that I cannot do at everyones machine. Any kind of help will be highly appreciable.
Thanks a lot,
Satnam Curry
http://www.currysatnam.com
Satnam - India
5228
Answer
Recent security settings from Microsoft have made it more difficult to send and receive Flash by email. In fact Macromedia does not even use Flash in their email that advertize their products.
It probably would be best to avoid Flash if you have no control over the user's email s/w.
I will update the lesson to note that using Flash is not a good option anymore.
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