image blocking in outlook express

voyeurn3 · Joined: 08 Sep 2007 Posts: 2

Hello,I'm from south america (excuse my english) and a complete beginner in html code.
I work at a country club that sends html emails to its
members (just text and a single image). I create the file with dreamweaver , then change the extension to 'txt'.
I give that txt file to my boss who sends it to all the members (by some mailer software I guess).

At first I was told to include images as background with absolute path, for example:

<body>
<table>
<tr><td background="http:wwww.../img.jpg"></td></tr>
</table>
</body>

However, many members use outlook express with image blocking activated.

Then I tried CSS:

<body>
<h3 title="image in hmtl email" style="
width: 300px;
height: 95px;
text-align:center;
position: relative;">
<span style="
background:url(http://www..../image.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
position: absolute;
width: 86px;
height: 70px;
top: 20px; "></span>email text
</h3>
</body>

It did not work either.
I also tried to embed with base64 coding

<body>
<p> message text</p>
<img src="data:image/gif;base64,eeeee... alt="test">
</body>

That code works perfectly in Firefox but not in IExploer or outlook express.

The only solution I found was to convert the image into a table with 1 cell for each pixel.
See:

http://neil.fraser.name/software/img2html/

But this works only for less than 10k jpg/gif images.

In this forum read the thread about embedding images

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/help/archive.php/o_t__t_5309__how-to-embed-image-in-html.html

specially greensweater's post about sending multipart/mime emails.
However I don't understand how to code such an email.

Could I still save that multipart/mime email in txt format? (only my boss has permission to send emails to club members, as I said I'm just a beginner, new employee).

If someone could provide a step by step sample I would be most grateful.

regards.

Corey Bryant · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:02 am

Sending HTML emails, you basically have to go back to "old-school" HTML and use deprecated HTML and HTML tables. The absolute paths will be needed as well.

But when you use something like

greensweater · Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 2

Including images inline in an email requires the use of multipart/related mime type -- this is how email messages may include extra files. I posted some technical details of how this is done in the link you mentioned. Basically all of the attached files are converted into a single text file which is sent as an email.

This raw text data is then received by the email client and converted back into what is displayed (images, HTML, attachments, etc.) With modern emailers, you normally don't see this raw data as it is presented above. (You can see the raw data in Outlook Express by right-clicking the email in the message pane and select "properties" -> "details" tab -> "message source.")

Including the image inline is the only way to avoid seeing the security message in Outlook or Outlook Express. Therefore, whatever software your boss is using to generate the email messages will have to support this function.

I use PHPlist for bulk emails which does support inline images. As I mentioned, http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=4875 goes into detail on how to do it using that software. If you can let us know what your boss is using for your emails maybe someone could give you a step-by-step explanation.

voyeurn3 · Joined: 08 Sep 2007 Posts: 2

Thanks corey and greensweater for your answers.
I will ask about the mailer program.

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