Sending Emails with images

AlexW · November 11th, 2011, 04:05 PM

Hi all,

I'm pulling my hair out over an issue I'm having while trying to add images to my emails (sent from aspx pages) with header and footer images.

I tried formatting the entire email in HTML and setting:

Code:

myMessage.IsBodyHtml = True

- this was flaky and stopped working with my outlook which resulted in ugly HTML literal text in the email.

I tried using AlternateView:

Code:

Dim TextView As AlternateView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(mailBody, Nothing, "text/plain")
Dim htmlView As AlternateView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(mailBody + "<image src=cid:myImage>", Nothing, "text/html")

Dim myResource As New LinkedResource(HttpContext.Current.Request.MapPath("") + "/EmailImages/myImage.jpg")
myResource.ContentId = "Image"

htmlView.LinkedResources.Add(myResource)

myMessage.AlternateViews.Add(TextView)
myMessage.AlternateViews.Add(htmlView)

This didnt work, instead it dropped the text formatting and displayed everything in a paragraph block with no spaces etc.

I tried using some image links in the email body itself, e.g.:
<http://www.mydomain.com/images/banner1.jpg>
<img src="http://www.mydomain.com/images/footer.jpg"/>

These dont render as images, my outlook settings are set to show HTML emails and the option to render emails as plain text is not selected.

Can anyone help or give any examples of how they have done this?

AlexW · November 11th, 2011, 04:30 PM

UPDATE:

I'm using outlook connector with a live account and found that adding the email address to the safe senders list allowed the HTML formatting, but this is a potential problem for users - I'm guessing the official way to ensure HTML and plain text goes to the right recipients is by using AlternateViews. This method however removed my line spacing/layout from the text file I store my email content in.

dofdiamond · December 3rd, 2011, 04:46 AM

Able to do using in build mail message class and call .attachmethod, then do proper coding as per your requirement and got your out put.