Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 09/06/05 15:20

__/ [Louis1] on Monday 05 September 2005 04:19 \__

> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:52:26 -0700, Neredbojias
> <neredbojias@neredbojias.com> wrote:
>
>>With neither quill nor qualm, Mason A. Clark quothed:
>>
>>> I just received a beautiful e-mail with background, pictures, and
>>> music.
>>>
>>> It played great in my Eudora mail program.
>>>
>>> How do I learn to do that? I don't even know where to ask.
>>>
>>> I prefer to put such things on a web page and e-mail the
>>> link -- but there might be a time to send it direct e-mail.
>>
>>Your last paragraph is probably the better procedure. Graphic email is
>>just html - the same as a webpage. I actually started learning website-
>>making by futzing with the source html of email in OE.
>
> I want to do the same.
>
> I am able to write and display the HTML in email,
> but cannot seem to get the knack for displaying graphics.
>
> I have a couple of websites, but when I link to a picture on
> my webserver, the graphics won't display.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated. In my Google searches,
> all I get are companies that want to charge me a monthly fee
> to do it for me, and that is absurd, I just need to know the best
> way to link to pictures on my web page.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Louis

My guess is that your mail client -- the one that you happen to test the
message under -- prevents images from being displayed. Older versions of
MS-homebred applications are the exception as they have a poor notion of
security. Reference to remote images is a common characterstic of spam,
whereby your IP address leaks to the Web, informing the spammer where you
are and whether your E-mail account is alive.

If you are not sure whether the above is the cause for your woe, have a
thorough look at your mail client's settings. Additionally, you can test
your HTML-formatted E-mail[1] by making it a Web page and testing it in
your Web browser.

Hope it helps,

Roy

[1] Personally I despise HTML-formatted E-mails, but different strokes for
different folks.

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