You can send the HTML emails with Flash files in them, but the majority of your recipients won’t be able to view them. This is because only Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail use the operating system’s built-in browsers to render their email. Other email applications use their own, proprietary ways of rendering HTML. Plus, most people have anti-virus and anti-spam applications that block the code used to embed Flash files.

Flash was built for the web browser and that’s where it should stay.

If you want to show a great animation or movie to your recipients, just insert a simple, intriguing gif or jpeg graphic into your HTML email, and give the link to a “landing page” on your website the animation or movie is. The same thing applies to JavaScript, ActiveX, pop-up navigation, streaming videos and movie files.

Flash Support across Major Email Environments
 

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