Our experience including email in an HTML_AREA has been quite problematic.
Basically, Servoy appears to break - going into a sort of long freeze - when typical email tags are encountered, such as
The problem occurs not always immediately, but after displaying a field a few times or perhaps changing forms (e.g. list to detail).
It occurs on Client/Server and Developer both.
It occurs with Mac OS X Panther and Mac OS X Tiger, on Intel and PowerPC Macs.
From viewing other posts and looking around the Web, I think this may be a problem with Java HTML rendering. There appear to be several Java HTML renderers available, and I perhaps Servoy could include a more robust one?
Or perhaps I missed something somewhere - but the problem was certainly a show-stopper for our solution.
Ric