I'm writing a j2ee application, that generates an html and sends it as email. In my html, a have an image, but it is not displayed when email is received. The html code is something like:
<img src="myimage.gif"></img>
where "myimage.gif" is sent as attached file in the email. I tried to change it to
<img src="cid:myimage.gif"></img>
but still no result. Any ideas? It should be without a link to the image.
You should upload your image to you server and reference that as a hard coded url in the src
e.g. upload to myserver.com/images/myimage.gif the in your html
<img src="http://myserver.com/images/myimage.gif" />
If the image is small enough, you could use my HTML Table pixel format :)
see my blog for details: HTML Table Pixel Format
This is just plain valid HTML, however it renders as an image.
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Take a look at Commons Email. It's build on top of the Java Mail API but simplifies it.
They have an example for sending html mails with inline images http://commons.apache.org/email/userguide.html
import org.apache.commons.mail.HtmlEmail;
...
// Create the email message
HtmlEmail email = new HtmlEmail();
email.setHostName("mail.myserver.com");
email.addTo("[email protected]", "John Doe");
email.setFrom("[email protected]", "Me");
email.setSubject("Test email with inline image");
// embed the image and get the content id
URL url = new URL("http://www.apache.org/images/asf_logo_wide.gif");
String cid = email.embed(url, "Apache logo");
// set the html message
email.setHtmlMsg("<html>The apache logo - <img src=\"cid:"+cid+"\"></html>");
// set the alternative message
email.setTextMsg("Your email client does not support HTML messages");
// send the email
email.send();