adding pictures to email

[gagz]

hi-

what is the best way to add a picture using the mail object? if i set the body format to html, should i just add an img tag and set the src to some like "

http://www.someplace.com/img.gif"?

seems like a hack way to do it.

Thanks,
Marc

 

[bigfoot]

That's the way I would do it. It looks right to me. Look at the source of an email you get as junk mail and see how it's embedded.

 

[gagz]

yeah i figured, just sucks that if the user had no internet connection, they will see a broken image (unless it gets cached)

 

[bigfoot]

You could send it as an attachment. No, wait a min. I have gotten emails with pictures embedded in them. Look in your junk spam next time, and I will too. I may have to do this too.

I'll ask my advertising department.

 

[bigfoot]

They use rich text format to send theirs.

 

[gagz]

can you elaborate since i only know that in some much as its a document format...

 

[bigfoot]

It's done on a MAC. Does that tell you? ;-)

We loly PC people can not do it, but MAC's Outlook can not do HTML

They add it to the e-mail like you would add clipart in MS Word. I'm still digging for a PC way, since like I said, I may have to do it in the future...

 

[pozak]

This is a generic version of what I use when I send something. It needs to be in HTML format. You can change the txt Items to whatever you need for your purpose.

Sub SendIntroMail()
Dim msgSample as New MailMessage
msgSample.BodyFormat = MailFormat.HTML
msgSample.To = txtFirstName.Value & _
" " & txtLastName.Value & _
" (" & txtEmailAddr.Value & &quot"
msgSample.From = "webmaster@domain.com"
msgSample.Headers.Add("Reply-To", "support@domain.com&quot
msgSample.Priority = MailPriority.High
msgSample.Subject = "Your Subject Line"
msgSample.Attachments.Add(New MailAttachment( _
Server.MapPath("images/imagename.gif&quot))
msgSample.Body = _
&quot;<table>&quot; & vbCrLf & _
&quot;<tr><td><img src=clad-left.gif></td>&quot; & _
&quot;<td>Thanks for visiting domain.com</td></tr>&quot; & _
&quot;</table>&quot; & vbCrLf
SmtpMail.Send(msgSample)
End Sub

 

[pozak]

Sorry, line 15 should read:
&quot;<tr><td>img src=imagename.gif></td>&quot; & _

-Phil

 

[bigfoot]

Very cool. Thank you.