How do I send an HTML attachment in an email without losing the JPEGs in it?

Question

Sean: Your first idea didn't work when I tried it. Your second idea won't work because the recipient only has email, NO internet access. Sigh.

Answer 1

Actually, Sean has you on the right track.

But if your recipient has only e mail and no internet access, you'll have to send the JPEG images along with it. HTML doesn't have images in it, only references. So you have to send all the files along at the same time. His suggestion didn't work because when files get saved into the temp directory, the names are altered (so the HTML can't pick it up). So in order to make this work, you'll have to send the entire framework together, and have your receipient save it to their hard drive before they can view it.

All this said, it would be easier to save it all into something like a word document and send it. That would handle it in line in the file as a MIME type so you wouldn't have to worry about all this. Another alternative would be to convert the entire page into a screen shot using something like ScreenPrint32 and just send a single JPEG of the whole page.

Answer 2

The html will be referencing the jpgs so its expecting to see it in the same folder. You should include the pictures in the attachment with the html and it should display correctly. You dont even need to make a folder because when the email server receives the html and the jpegs, then they will read it from the same temporary email attachment folder and it should display correctly when the receiver opens the email.
Another trick is to upload the jpegs to http://www.villagephotos.com cuz after you upload it (for free), they will give you a http (url) web address to the picture that it stored for you. So in your html file you can just put in the code and it will show the picture correctly.

Edit:
Another thing you can do:
Go to http://www.winzip.com and download the zipper. Its a program to help you zip together files and make into one compressed folder. You create a zip file. You can basically drag all the pictures and the html page itself into the newly created zip file. You can just send that zip file.

The recipient will also need winzip or some sort of program that will unzip the file. Most computers already come with a zip program so he or she might have it in their computer. If the recipient unzips the files into his or her harddrive, it will all get unloaded into one folder automatically. That person can just click on your html and the pictures will show up since they are in the same folder.

Otherwise you might just want to send the htmls and pictures to the recipient and make that person "save all attachments" in one folder. However, it takes up a lot of space so I dont know what the person's email client limit is when it comes to receiving files. Thats why I think the zipping method would be more helpful.

Answer 3

Try using zip or rar to compress the folder containing ur html file and then send across the file. That way, all pix will show properly

Answer 4

You may have to save the pictures in the html as .bmp. Try that.

Good Luck

Answer 5

Place the images in your personal web space(website) and use the img tag in your email...

[img]h##p://www.my.website.com/image.jpg [/img]

When the email is openned the image will be download into the email.

Answer 6

inlcude the pics...place them in a folder...

edit the scr of the pic