Embedded image not showing in Outlook Signature (OpenInsight 32-bit)
At 03 FEB 2020 12:46:26AM cmeyer wrote:
Hi All,
After successfully inserting a signature in the email by telling Outlook to insert code as HTML only to find that the embedded image does not show, just a blank image with the message in the top left hand corner saying "The picture can't be displayed". Then had a look at the html code within the email only to find the image has been converted to what I believe is Base64 code.
Has anyone included an image as part of the signature and successfully displayed the image within email.
Any advise would be grateful.
Chris
At 03 FEB 2020 12:49AM Donald Bakke wrote:
Is your image embedded in the HTML or is it referenced via a link? If referenced via a link, is this a link to a public server? In other words, if you pasted the link into a browser does the image appear?
At 03 FEB 2020 01:53AM cmeyer wrote:
Inserted the image in the signature and expected the image to appear just like signature in a new outlook email. But when the signature was inserted via the OLE emailing routine only the text (and formatting) is successfully inserted into the email. When looking at the email source code the image appears to have SRC"CID:IMAGE.JPG" inserted in the email. Not sure what this CID is about but suspect it is some Base64 coding?
Surely someone has successfully included an image in an outlook signature or for that matter any image in the body of an email.
Any guidance would be much appreciated.
Chris.
At 03 FEB 2020 02:26AM Donald Bakke wrote:
Surely someone has successfully included an image in an outlook signature or for that matter any image in the body of an email.
Perhaps you are dealing with an Outlook specific issue (which I don't have much experience with), but I have included images in the body/signature of many emails using SMTP.
Inserted the image in the signature and expected the image to appear just like signature in a new outlook email.
I don't know what "inserted the image" means in this context. Is the image being inserted from a local file on the computer or is it being embedded by referencing a link to an HTTP server? Are you copy/pasting this image?
At 03 FEB 2020 02:50AM cmeyer wrote:
Sorry for the confusion.
The signature was created within Outlook including text and image. This signature (including image) is automatically inserted in a new email generated from within Outlook. All works fine.
But when the email is created via OLE (as per RFC routine in HTML mode) and the signature file (read from local drive) is inserted in the body, the text is fine but the image is NOT displayed. If I knew how to insert an image in the body of an email I could remove the image from the signature and separately insert in the body of the email. If believe to do this the "src" needs to reference a global url that the user does not have. I THINK that is why the image gets converted to Base64, include that in the body and somehow gets decoded when displaying the outlook email (NOT SURE), just saw lots of low level data in the email.
Not being an emailing expert it would nice to be able to insert an image in the body of an email using HTML coding, that I can do.
Hope that explains my predicament.
Chris