Email format for Reporting Services

Hi, this question is related to Reporting Services on SQL Server 2000. When creating a report and setting it to send via email as an attached excel spreadsheet, the email is in the format HTML. Does anyone know if it possible to default this format to something else like Rich Text. I have a feeling that this might involve a change to the RSEmailDPConfiguration within the RSReportServer.config file but am not sure which tag needs changing or adding.

Any help/suggestions greatfully received.According to documentation:

rsreportserver.config

EmbeddedRenderFormats

Specifies the rendering format used to encapsulate a report within the body

of an e-mail message. Images within the report are subsequently embedded within

the report. Valid values are MHTML and HTML4.0.

Does not look like you'll get Rich Text in an email without some custom code.

cheers,
Andrew|||

RTF is not supported by out-of-the-box RS. Theoretically you can write your own renderer but it's a difficult task, plus then you'll need to write custom delivery provider to support it as well. Support for RTF is in the wish list for the next RS version.

|||Thanks for both of your comments. I had a feelling it might be a custom option.

Email delivery failure

Has anyone had issues with emails being delivered? The job runs successfully,
but the email does not get delivered. It seems to be related to the Reporting
Services server and not the email server. The reason I believe this is that,
after I reboot the Reporting Services server, the emails are successful. I
haven't been able to determine what causes the blockage on that server.Correction: Has anyone had issues with emails "not" being delievered?
"Rand" wrote:
> Has anyone had issues with emails being delivered? The job runs successfully,
> but the email does not get delivered. It seems to be related to the Reporting
> Services server and not the email server. The reason I believe this is that,
> after I reboot the Reporting Services server, the emails are successful. I
> haven't been able to determine what causes the blockage on that server.|||I am having the same exact issue. Any luck? Can you provide input on how you
resolved your issue, if you did?
"Rand" wrote:
> Correction: Has anyone had issues with emails "not" being delievered?
> "Rand" wrote:
> > Has anyone had issues with emails being delivered? The job runs successfully,
> > but the email does not get delivered. It seems to be related to the Reporting
> > Services server and not the email server. The reason I believe this is that,
> > after I reboot the Reporting Services server, the emails are successful. I
> > haven't been able to determine what causes the blockage on that server.