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.
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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.
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" />.
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 html form that I'm sending to external customers so they can fill up and send it back to me.
The problem occurs when they click the submit button on the form.
For some reason in windows 7 64 bit, with outlook 2010 and explorer 9, mailto action doesn't work for me.
An empty outlook message is displayed and only the subject and recipients are added.
There is no attachment and no body text.
When I change the default browser to FF I receive the text I wanted in the body section instead as an attachment (postdata.att).
I can't use server code cause the html form is sent by outlook to external customers, so asp/php/cgi is irrelevant for me.
The external customers have no access to the organization's intranet and since the html form is sent as an email attachment, it's also not hosted on an internet server.
Does anyone has a solution?
Thanks,
mailto action doesn't work for me.
mailto depends on specific combinations of correctly configured browsers and email clients. It is not suitable for pubic use in an action attribute as support is too poor.
Use a server side process instead. Note that form support in HTML email is also poor, so you should link to a form hosted on the web.
I can't use server code cause the html form is sent by outlook to external customers, so asp/php/cgi is irrelevant for me.
You need to set up a public facing webserver.
I want to generate a mail body in which i want to make a link, on which user clicks and add new contact outlook popup opens into the client screen.
How this can be done??
This is what vCard was invented for. Create a vCard file (from Outlook or using a third party application), and host it online on some webspace. Or, if needed, you can create a webpage that generates the vCard dynamically. Simply add a hyperlink to the vCard URL to the email message body.
Upon clicking upon the URL, Outlook will open up the contents from the vCard as a new Outlook contact.
That is, if Outlook isn't setup to block URLs, in which case you'd be better off sending the vCard as an attachment. Outlook signatures can be setup to contain a vCard.
I'm afraid this will most likely turn out to be impossible. Scripting is usually taboo in E-Mail clients.
This may be possible from within a web site using IE specific scripting (in VBScript, connecting to Outlook via COM or something), but security settings would block that from working for the vast majority of users anyway.