I'm going to be sending opt-in mailings to the customers of small business owners which will contain special coupons, etc. If I used an autoresponder/automated email marketing service, would I have the option to send plain text emails, or do those services only allow you to send HTML emails? I'm leaning toward text emails since I don't want to risk a subscriber not being able to see images in their messages.

I'm also toying with the idea of creating my own HTML image in a web editing program, uploading it to a host, then just putting the URL in my message so they can click on it and view it as a web page. Would an autoresponder service allow me to do that? And would this approach be professional? I haven't really seen this done but it would seem to solve the problem. I definitely don't want to send the image as an attachment either.

What do you guys think?

zippy