How do I embed images in a HTML mail?

[Tom De Smet]

Hi,

I'm designing a HTML e-mail for a customer to be used intern at their
company. So everybody their has the same outlook client. After a small test
it was clear that sending HTML mails wouldn't be a problem, so it needs to be
HTML mail, nothing else.

Now my problem is that Outlook seems te add every image in my HTML mail as
an attachement instead of embedding it. I tried it several ways of which I'll
describe two here:

1. I designed my webpage which I want to use as my HTML page in Photoshop
and Notepad. Than I uploaded it to our webserver and surfed to the webpage. I
tried "send it by e-mail" in IE 7. I got my mail properly send to me, but
when I tried to forward it or when I saved it as an OFT file and than opened
it again, my mail was still intact but every image in it was added again as
an attachement.

2. I copied everything from my webpage in IE. I created a new HTML mail in
Outlook, paste everything their, inserting a background image and sending it.
But same problem occurs, the mail stays intact, but every image is added
again as an attachement.

I surfed Google for hours now, but didn't find anything that explained how
to manually embed images. I know they're supposed to be
"CID:GenerateACodeHere", but I can not do that manually. Nor did I find any
nother solutions. The only "solution" I did find was by coding it in VB.Net
but that's not an option for me.

I'm using Outlook 2003 SP1 and Internet Explorer 7 (or Firefox 2.002) and
I'm on an exchange server.

I hope at a quick reply because the deadline is this evening.

Thanks!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Place your htm-file and pcitures in a single folder and reference to the
images by a relative path. Then use Insert-> File to select your htm-file->
press the little arrow button on the Insert button and choose Insert as
Text.

 

[Tom De Smet]

I did that, but my images aren't showing than. Only the red crosses telling
me that the images couldn't be loaded are can't be found. But when I open my
html document in explorer, everything looks normal.

Place your htm-file and pcitures in a single folder and reference to the
images by a relative path. Then use Insert-> File to select your htm-file->
press the little arrow button on the Insert button and choose Insert as
Text.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Hi,

I'm designing a HTML e-mail for a customer to be used intern at their
company. So everybody their has the same outlook client. After a small
test
it was clear that sending HTML mails wouldn't be a problem, so it needs to
be
HTML mail, nothing else.

Now my problem is that Outlook seems te add every image in my HTML mail as
an attachement instead of embedding it. I tried it several ways of which
I'll
describe two here:

1. I designed my webpage which I want to use as my HTML page in Photoshop
and Notepad. Than I uploaded it to our webserver and surfed to the
webpage. I
tried "send it by e-mail" in IE 7. I got my mail properly send to me, but
when I tried to forward it or when I saved it as an OFT file and than
opened
it again, my mail was still intact but every image in it was added again
as
an attachement.

2. I copied everything from my webpage in IE. I created a new HTML mail in
Outlook, paste everything their, inserting a background image and sending
it.
But same problem occurs, the mail stays intact, but every image is added
again as an attachement.

I surfed Google for hours now, but didn't find anything that explained how
to manually embed images. I know they're supposed to be
"CID:GenerateACodeHere", but I can not do that manually. Nor did I find
any
nother solutions. The only "solution" I did find was by coding it in
VB.Net
but that's not an option for me.

I'm using Outlook 2003 SP1 and Internet Explorer 7 (or Firefox 2.002) and
I'm on an exchange server.

I hope at a quick reply because the deadline is this evening.

Thanks!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You might want to install Service Pack 2 and see if that makes a difference.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


-----

I did that, but my images aren't showing than. Only the red crosses telling
me that the images couldn't be loaded are can't be found. But when I open
my
html document in explorer, everything looks normal.

Place your htm-file and pcitures in a single folder and reference to the
images by a relative path. Then use Insert-> File to select your
htm-file->
press the little arrow button on the Insert button and choose Insert as
Text.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


-----

Hi,

I'm designing a HTML e-mail for a customer to be used intern at their
company. So everybody their has the same outlook client. After a small
test
it was clear that sending HTML mails wouldn't be a problem, so it needs
to
be
HTML mail, nothing else.

Now my problem is that Outlook seems te add every image in my HTML mail
as
an attachement instead of embedding it. I tried it several ways of
which
I'll
describe two here:

1. I designed my webpage which I want to use as my HTML page in
Photoshop
and Notepad. Than I uploaded it to our webserver and surfed to the
webpage. I
tried "send it by e-mail" in IE 7. I got my mail properly send to me,
but
when I tried to forward it or when I saved it as an OFT file and than
opened
it again, my mail was still intact but every image in it was added
again
as
an attachement.

2. I copied everything from my webpage in IE. I created a new HTML mail
in
Outlook, paste everything their, inserting a background image and
sending
it.
But same problem occurs, the mail stays intact, but every image is
added
again as an attachement.

I surfed Google for hours now, but didn't find anything that explained
how
to manually embed images. I know they're supposed to be
"CID:GenerateACodeHere", but I can not do that manually. Nor did I find
any
nother solutions. The only "solution" I did find was by coding it in
VB.Net
but that's not an option for me.

I'm using Outlook 2003 SP1 and Internet Explorer 7 (or Firefox 2.002)
and
I'm on an exchange server.

I hope at a quick reply because the deadline is this evening.

Thanks!