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I'm creating an internal website for my work that occasionally sends out mail(s) to users that ideally should contain content from the site itself.

My first instinct was to have the mail contain only an <iframe/> with a link to the page on the site, but I've now confirmed that Outlook 2007 won't render anything that allows external pages to be shown in an email (see here)

Does anyone know of any method, setting, plugin or other trick to allow this to work somehow? As I said it's for an internal site, so it doesn't matter if it's slightly hackish, but it should be secure enough to still prevent this from happening from external mail sources.

Any help is appreciated.

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How are you sending out the emails? VBA code in Outlook or some other method? – paulmorriss Mar 25 '11 at 16:09
I'm sending the mails from a C# application. I'm guessing there is no way I can change the content so it will override the security protocols (which is actually a good thing IMHO), but I was wondering if there was any way I can configure Outlook so it would let me do it just from mails received from a specific domain or address. – Alex Crouzen Mar 30 '11 at 11:13
Can you just put the web page into the body of the email? Or am I missing something? – paulmorriss Mar 30 '11 at 11:54
There are two reasons I don't want to do that: One is the size of the email (the stuff I want to show can be very lengthy) and the other is that the appearance can change over time. I'd like the users to have a simple way of viewing this data from outlook, without them having to click through to a page, which is what Im doing currently. – Alex Crouzen Mar 30 '11 at 12:36
Sorry, no idea then. – paulmorriss Mar 30 '11 at 13:18
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