My question is simple. but, I am unable to find out solution myself. please help!
When I send out an email to my clients, I want my formatting (font-family, font-size, etc) to remain unchanged when my client receives it. Also, any INLINE images I send as part of email body, MOST of the time my client cannot see those. Only one red X appears on top left corner of an empty box in place of image!!
What am I doing wrong?!!
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Thanks, Guys!
My email client is outlook express and I did everything I could in the setup, including setting options to send inline images, setting encoding to base 64 to allow MIME, etc. But, it didn't work. receivers of my email (my clients) are still getting the same red X with empty box! It's upto their email setup to allow me to do so.
Can anyone suggest any other way out? I just want to be able to send two images in my email to my clients, WHO are usually very reluctant to open up their attachments, otherwise I could have sent the images via attachments!!!!
All three of you are able to understand my problem correctly. So, hopefully, should be able to suggest some other way out! Please...
Can you post the contents of the email here please.
Best to do this by sending the email to YOURSELF first, and then taking the HTML source of that email and posting it here. The reason is that then we can see what your code looks like when it has passed over email servers.
My guess is that you need to fully path the image. So that if you have an image tag like this:
<img src="/images/myimage.jpg">
...you will need to change that link to:
<img src="http://www.mydomain.c
This is important for HTML received in an email because the email client does not load the images in a 'browser' context, but within it's own HTML translator, so there is no domain context for each item in the message.
If you're satisfied that all options are correctly set you could try reinstalling Outlook Express:
http://support.microsoft.c
Thanks again for quick responses, friends! I tried reinstalling outlook express. But, problem persists. So, obviously email setup at receiving end is messing it up (may be allowing only plain text and not html), which I can't ask my clients to verify and of course can't tell them to change.
I don't see any other way out of this issue other than sending my images as attachments ;-( I hate to give up!!!
There's nothing unusual about this, as I said above, it's very common practice for people to have their email clients set up this way.
I you're going to send attched documants to them you should consider advising them to "white list" you on their email clients - i.e. make you a safe recipient. Many people are justifiably just as wary of attachments as they are of HTML emails.
Good luck!
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by: SweatCoderPosted on 2007-05-29 at 08:55:55ID: 19173204
It *might* be your code, or it *could* be security settings on the email client which sometimes disable inline images unless you go into settings on the client and enable it.