Emailing entire Webpages (not just links)

Here's a little-promoted Safari function that you might find useful. Safari offers the ability to send entire webpages via email. This is a nice feature to have on hand when you want to create a web archive using your gmail acccount or when you know the person receiving your mail won't necessarily click on a link. By selecting File -> Mail Contents of the Page (Command-I), Safari copies the page to Apple Mail and allow you to post it to the recipient of your choice.

The always excellent how-to site Murphy Mac offers a detailed video tutorial on using this feature, going beyond the menu selection into how to configure options in mail so that the the media attachments can be viewed. I'm also particularly impressed by his excellent choice of webpage material while demonstrating this trick's functionality.

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Source: http://murphymac.com/slib/send-a-page-not-a-link.htm

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Bob Mc

I love this feature...I only wish the other browsers used it, OmniWeb guys...

March 05 2007 at 11:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

BillJJones

Jerry Jones you funny, funny man! That's hysterical! Meh.

I like seeing stuff like this. While it's really cool that you already know everything, I didn't know this.

March 03 2007 at 10:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jerry Jones

And the power button turnes the machine *Off* and *On*...

March 02 2007 at 7:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dan Riley

Another way of doing it is to just highlight the area you want
to send, like from your comments word, all the way up to
the title of this article, then paste it into a new mail message.
You get the same results as your article mentions, with all the
links etc., but only for the selected area of the web page.
I do this with tuaw.com articles all the time.

Dan

March 02 2007 at 5:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

AngryMac

Eric -

That's an *excellent* idea. Do you make the content with iWeb or something else? Have you tested to see what email programs receive the content ok?

March 02 2007 at 3:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eric Carroll

I've used this feature to send HTML emails using Apple mail. I'd make a "website" that was really just the html email I wanted to send, host it on my company's web-server in some remote, hard to navigate to place, and then "send the Contents of that page" and my clients, just saw an "HTML email"...

Just thought other might find that useful...

March 02 2007 at 2:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply