Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/06/05 16:42

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
<snip>
> 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.
>

Most email clients will try to embed the images even if the source is
online. They create a multi-part message, download and attach the image
and then change your 'src' reference in your html formatted email to
point to the attachment. Tested on various email clients. The only way I
had success in creating an email with a linked online resource is via
server script to generate the email.

That said, email *is not* really suited for conveying large data. A
moderate size image 200 or 300Kb can really bog down a mail server.
Dialup email download can be reduced to a crawl. As an artist I have to
send good size images to clients. I upload them to a temp folder on my
website and send them a link in a email. Of course I have had some folks
try to send 8x10 24 or 42-bit 600 DPI uncompressed images to me. The
record was 21MB email. I was *not* pleased!

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Take care,

Jonathan
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http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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