high security settings.

[boyfromoz]

I have a client who is sending emails with flash in them. Problem is, many people have their security settings set to high for email and the flash won't come through. Client want's everyone who can receive the flash to get it, and those who can't to see an iamge isntead.

Is their some way I can detect security settings,and laod an image instead for those with high security settings set?

 

[billwatson]

Trouble is user's system security settings are not allowing
ActiveX controls to play.

And there isn't anything you can do about that. You can't effect their security settings. And I dont think you can detect them.

The main problem you are dealing with is that an email client might not display ANY html content. Some people disable plugin content as well.There's no way to guarantee your regular HTML formatting will display as
intended, nor is there a guarantee that your Flash will display as intended.

In short if the user wont allow ActiveX controls or HTML then neither will work.

Last time I faced this I got the client to agree to 3 forms of the same email...rich media, html, text and target his audience accordingly.

 

[boyfromoz]

There must be a way to do this. Say, run a script, if it doesn't work, assume active x is off, then load an iamge isntead of the flash?

 

[billwatson]

well perhaps but if there is i dont know how do it. my other point though was that if user is not accepting html email then they wont get the image either.
a pain i know as many clients want rich email content as it is a proven marketing tool when it gets through.
i thinks its a case of browser technology lagging behind the rest of us. give it a couple of years and everyone will be getting this type of mail.
the other option of course is to send the flash as an attachment to a plain text message and let the user open it if they want or can.