HTML Emails and Images....How to include..

[Scott M]

Re: HTML Emails and Images....How to include..

It looks like the image is in the email but not being downloaded - it is usually an option in your email client whether to automatically download pictures. Try right clicking the image area and select 'Download image' or similar if it shows on the menu.

[NYCountryGal]

Re: HTML Emails and Images....How to include..

@Scott - Yes, I am trying to include the image (the company logo) in the email. Our web programmer gave me the HTML source for retrieving the company logo from our website and I put that in my code but I didn't get the image (see below). I checked the SNDHTMLEML program and it does include the multipart/related, so I am scratching my head now.

header = %trim(header) +'Date: ' + maildate + CONST_LF           
         +'Subject: ' + parmSubject + CONST_LF                   
         +'MIME-Version: 1.0' + CONST_LF                         
         +'Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="MSG_PART"' 
         + CONST_LF + CONST_LF + '--MSG_PART' + CONST_LF         
         +'Content-Type: text/html' + CONST_LF                   
         +'Content-Disposition: inline;' + CONST_LF + CONST_LF   
         + CONST_LF; 

Here's a picture of the email:


Am I perhaps doing something wrong?

@DeadMan - you remember how Kale wanted to send our clients an email with a link to the company website when their billing was ready? That's what I am working on right now - from the FourSoft side - for the US side of the business. When we get it figured out, we're going to add same processing to Canada side. Only changes since you left - we're up and running 45% of the US clients on FourSoft now.

Basically - I didn't know if I wanted to include an image in the email if I needed to include some special wrappers or anything.

I've included a PDF of the SNDHTMLEML code so you can tell me if it's missing something .... I haven't a clue. I'm just trying to satisfy the CEO's request for an automated email to our clients when their billing is ready...

[Scott Klement]

Re: HTML Emails and Images....How to include..

If you want to send the images inside the e-mail itself, then you need more than just plain HTML. You need to creae a multi-part MIME message using the "multipart/related" content type. I'm assuming that a command named SNDHTMLEML doesn't do that, but I could be wrong...

The other approach is to have HTML with http:// URLs for the images. This will allow the images to be downloaded via a web server, but most E-mail clients will not show the images by default in that case, you'll have to tell it to download them explicitly, or add the sender to a "safe senders" list. Otherwise, there are privacy concerns with this approach.

[DeadManWalks]

Re: HTML Emails and Images....How to include..

html just points to stuff. so look at a page and see that it points to the image on the server.

When you get an image with images, exchange pops a button to see if you want to download the images. To stay with Html, you have to do it this way.


You could create a PDF that has the image in it.

[NYCountryGal]

Hi!

I'm back .... Okay I got my HTML issue resolved and working. I took the easy way and I created a CL and I pass the values to the CL and I use the SNDHTMLEML command that was written by David Faust that I found on the internet and I am using that. Works great once I got help in figuring out what I was doing wrong with the HTML code.

On to my next issue ... I want to make the HTML email that I am sending to our clients to look polished - so I want to include the company logo. I just have to include that as part of the HTML code correct and it should work - right? I was just reading an article on the web and it talked about the image having to be on the internet and my mind stopped and said wait a minute I remember something about that from the HTML classes I took years ago.

So an inquirying mind wants to know ... do I need to worry about that?

Thanks!
Roxann