How do I attach a palm bitmap to an outgoing email?
----- Original Message ----- From: "jimrandomh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:27 PM Subject: Re: Sending HTML Email with embedded bitmap > Matt Graham wrote: > > David R. wrote: > >> Does anyone know where I can find some more info on sending HTML email > >> with an embedded bitmap? I know I need to connect to a mail server on > >> port 25 and use SMTP protocol but how do I embed a bitmap image to > >> that email so that when a person opens the email they see the picture > >> in the body of the text? Any help would be greatly appreciated!! > > > > <img src="http://server.com/image.jpg";> > > That only works if the receiver's mail client is horribly misconfigured. > You have to embed the image as an attachment, because good mailreaders > explicitly disallow references to remote servers. (This is because > spammers > figured out that they could observe whether an image is loaded or not to > check the validity of an address. So if your mailreader loads remote > images, > you will get a lot more spam than you would otherwise.) > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, > please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
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