Gmail hides pictures by default if they are from another website.
How softwares like Outlook send the signature pictures to Gmail without becoming hidden?
If the person is in your Gmail contacts then the images appear as normal. Make sure people are adding your address to their contacts and it will be fine.
As #rds pointed out earlier, Gmail now defaults to display external images without asking first. However, even with asking enabled, there is a way to get the image displayed.
Gmail and most email clients like Outlook will display any image embedded in the email and may prompt for downloading images that are external to the email.
Embedded images are attached to the email in a very similar manner to regular attachments, except that:
their MIME Content-Disposition header is inline, instead of attachment.
they feature a Content-ID header, which allows referencing the inlined content from the HTML part of the email. For instance, if the Content-ID header is "myimage", you may reference it as <img src="cid:myimage" />.
External images are plain vanilla references to external resources, e.g. <img src="http://example.org/images/myimage.png" />.
Email clients do this as a security/privacy measure. Downloading external images allow email senders to track email openings by tracking image downloads on their own infrastructure, e.g. by using a custom URL for each recipient, e.g. <img src="http://example.org/track.png?recipient-id=493275735" />.
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I have a task to send an email containing an HTML image to recipients without using the internet (SMTP is okay). I need to do this in informatica BDM using a Java transformation. I have the code working with a hyperlink reference to the image but when I try to locally access the picture via absolute path, the image is not added (seems to be an Informatica issue).
My question is:
if I use the hyperlink to point to the image will my server try to add the picture before sending the email, or will the picture be rendered by the clients machine when they receive the email containing HTML?
Here is what my code looks like
emailDescription = emailDescription + "<center><img \" src=\""+ path + "\" alt=\"Logo\" align=\"middle\" title=\"Logo\"></center><br>";
where path is just a variable containing a link to the image
An image in an email is rendered by the email client, but the image can either be fetched from an URL or embedded in the email. If you don't have a web server to serve the image from an URL, you should look for embedding techniques (which unfortunately I don't know).
A quick search for embedding images showed me that various email client behave differently, mostly to protect receivers from spam and malicious images or links. You may have to test with some clients used by your target audience.
I am trying to generate email signatures for my entire company so I am using a script to fill in an HTML template with each individual's information and generating an HTML file that I would like to use for the signature. The generation of the HTML works fine and I can load the HTML into chrome and it displays 100% correctly.
I would prefer to not have to host these images somewhere at the moment and would like them to be embedded in the e-mail. We can achieve this by using outlook on each individuals machine to create the signature by hand, but again we want to avoid that. Ideally, we will generate these templates and then automatically put these files on each employee's computer so all we have to do is select the signature from outlook.
The problem we are having is that when we do this, the image does not load. It seems that outlook won't allow base64 encoded images? I've tried to work around this by trying to attach the image to the email and then referencing it, but this doesn't seem to work either. I used this template. I got the boundary from a test email I sent myself, but I don't even know if this is a good way to go about this either.
In short, is there a way to create an .htm file for outlook signatures that includes the image inside the .htm file?
External image file that will be added as an attachment is the only way - Word (which renders HTML messages in Outlook) does not support base64 embedded images.
Try to create a new signature with an image in Outlook and see how they reference the images.
I have prepared an HTML for emailing out some information about a product I am working on. It has a few a images pointing to our webservers, even though I added our domain as trusted, when I try to view the email in Outlook 2013, it displays this message:
I get these emails all the time from other people and the message usually says, click to view images, and then the HTML displays properly.
Surely, there must be a setting I can set to change this prompt.
Outlook does not check whether the domain is trusted. You can either make sure the images are embedded (<img src="cid:xyz"> where xyz is the Content-ID MIME header of the image attachment) or you can set a special property on the client side (it can only be set on the client side in Outlook) that lets Outlook view the images.
I am working on an email signature to be sent from Outlook and Outlook web client that will be applied to all individuals in a company using adolsign (a third party tool that generates an email signature based on AD information and an html template).
It needs to contain a logo.
Based on my research, images linked directly from a web server as below cause two problems. 1. They are often blocked by web clients for security reasons and 2. they are unavailable when the user has downloaded an email and opens it offline.
<img src="http://www.myurl.com/myimage" width="142" height="30" >
Embedding the image using SVG or a 64 bit encoded data tag doesn't work in Outlook, so that is not an option.
I believe that using the cid tag to create and reference a hidden attachment is my best option for this particular client, but I'm struggling to get this to work using a url. Using a network file path is not a great option as it won't resolve for users sending emails from the web client. I'd like to use something like this but it doesn't render when I open it in Outlook:
<img src="cid:http://www.myurl.com/myimage" width="142" height="30" >
My hope is to get Outlook to create and reference an attachment in the email that is downloaded from the url when the email is sent.
How do I accomplish this? Is it possible? Please let me know if some of the assumptions I am making are incorrect.
I have an email sent out in in my application, and in the HTML of that email, i have an <img> tag which is an image and a link.
The problem is that in most cases the image doesn't load in emails, unless you enable the viewing of embedded images.
That image is an important part of the email. Is there any way I can replace the image tag with something else which always loads in emails? The desire is that users don't have to explicitly click on show pictures to see it.
Absolutely... you can embed the image as an attachment, and then use the CID header in the mail MIME to reference it (instead of a URL to a web resource)
There is no way to guarantee that an image will be displayed without explicit permission of the user. That would circumvent the whole concept if it were possible. The idea is to protect the user from exposure to undesirable content. In the event you were to find some hack way around it, it would be considered just that, and could get you blacklisted once the hack is discovered.
Is the img tag just a reference to an external image that's hosted somewhere? You could try adding it to the email as an embedded resource and see if that helps. Some mail clients may still ask permission before displaying it, though. But it should get more of the target audience.