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Hi,
We use Thunderbird to send email and attach the email signature (as below) to thunderbird in the settings, this all work fine, no issue. The issue comes for the receiving party (sometimes) who gets 9 attachments aswell as the signature. The signature looks fine but in various email clients we are looking like we are sending 9 attachments, which we aren't as all images in sig file are stored online.
Any ideas?
We use Thunderbird to send email and attach the email signature (as below) to thunderbird in the settings, this all work fine, no issue. The issue comes for the receiving party (sometimes) who gets 9 attachments aswell as the signature. The signature looks fine but in various email clients we are looking like we are sending 9 attachments, which we aren't as all images in sig file are stored online.
Any ideas?
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Simon Johnson - Digital Media Director
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Idealogy Group Ltd, 11 Portland Street, Southampton, UK, SO14 7EB
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Main Office: +44 (0)23 8021 1642 (Ext 230)
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Direct Line: +44 (0)23 8023 1888
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Email:
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simon.j@idealogyltd.com
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<a href="http://www.idealogyltd.com/">
<img src="http://www.idealogyltd.com/email-images/emailFooterLogos1.jpg" alt="Idealogy Logo" height="76" width="221" border="0">
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<a href="http://idealogydebate.blogspot.co.uk/">
<img src="http://www.idealogyltd.com/email-images/emailFooterLogos_blogger.jpg" alt="Blogger Logo" height="76" width="47" border="0">
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Idealogy">
<img src="http://www.idealogyltd.com/email-images/emailFooterLogos_twitter.jpg" alt="Twitter Logo" height="76" width="36" border="0">
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<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/132677">
<img src="http://www.idealogyltd.com/email-images/emailFooterLogos_linked.jpg" alt="LinkedIn Logo" height="76" width="34" border="0">
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/IdealogyLimited">
<img src="http://www.idealogyltd.com/email-images/emailFooterLogos_facebook.jpg" alt="Facebook Logo" height="76" width="35" border="0">
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DemandCreation">
<img src="http://www.idealogyltd.com/email-images/emailFooterLogos_youTube.jpg" alt="YouTube Logo" height="76" width="34" border="0">
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/idealogy/">
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<a target="_blank" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IdealogyUpdate/~6/1">
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Registered Office: 70 High Street , Fareham, Hants , PO16 7BB
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Eddie Shipman
Personally, I'd base64 encode them and put them in using cid's. I dealt with this in Delphi. let me see if I can find the code at home.
ASKER
Ok interesting idea, doesn't that lead to support issues on some email clients?
No, they all support it.
You just need to base64 encode the images and use the img tag to embed them like this:
Make sure you change the content-type based on the image type, image/jpg for JPG images image/png for PNGs.
You can add the other attributes; alt, height, width, border, to the tag as well.
<img src="data:image/jpg;base64,/*base64-data-string here*/" />Make sure you change the content-type based on the image type, image/jpg for JPG images image/png for PNGs.
You can add the other attributes; alt, height, width, border, to the tag as well.
ASKER
You sure, this article says different about support but its 2008, can't find much from later on but 5 years means they must have moved on?
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/1761/embedding-images-in-email/
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/1761/embedding-images-in-email/
The code I posted was from 2007 or 2008. I am not doing that type of programming anymore. Not sure what to tell you, though other than to test it.
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