email with images embedded

[Trapulo]

Hello,
I need to send an email from vb.net. The body may be html encoded, and all
images related to the html (<img src....>) may be embedded in the email
content instead of refer to remote urls.

I've tried a lot of solution, but I can only get a message with images
embedded but no html, or message with html but no images embedded. What is
the right way to have this goal?

I have a dictionary with <image name, image content as byte array >, and a
string with <img src="image name">. I've tried working with AlternateView,
CreateAlternateViewFromString, LinkedResource objects...

thanks

 

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi Trapulo,

Please take a look at following faq and let me know if this works for you:

#How do I embed images in an email?
http://www.systemnetmail.com/faq/4.4.aspx
Embedding images is something that is new with System.Net.Mail....

Sincerely,
Walter Wang ([email protected], remove 'online.')
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[Trapulo]

Thank you, this seems quite good.

 

[Trapulo]

Hello Walter,
I've embedded images using the way you suggested. However I have a problem:
mail clients as thunderbird, or webmails, shows images. Outlook Express only
shows html-formatted newsletter, but shows a red cross instead of images.

I've checked email's source an seems to be right. Links point to
"<cid:xxxx>" and all images are emebedded in source. What can be this
problem?

thanks

 

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi Trapulo,

What's the image's file type? such as a GIF, JPG, PNG? 6.0 and earlier
version of IE doesn't support PNG files.

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Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Trapulo]

Hello Walter,
files are jpg or gif (alway sent with jpg mime).

I solved changing encoding of html from base64 to quoted. Howevere I've
still a problem with hotmail: only viewing the email from hotmail I can see
some (every the same) images, but not all. From outlook, OE, gmail, etc. all
ok. Any idea?

thanks

 

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi Trapulo,

Do you mean that some images will always show fine when viewed in hotmail,
but some other will always show incorrectly?

Is it possible to send me a simple but complete project to reproduce the
issue?

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Walter Wang ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Guest]

Hi Trapulo,

Hi Walter, I've received your email: I didn't reply because viewing this
thread by outlook express I can't see your last message Now I'm using web
interface, where thread is complete..

Do you mean that some images will always show fine when viewed in hotmail,
but some other will always show incorrectly?

yes

Is it possible to send me a simple but complete project to reproduce the
issue?

Thank you, but I solved. There is a bug in hotmail, related to images file
name length. Now hotmail displays all images embedded in my emails.

Thank you anyway