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Sending out HTML email with IMG tag from an iPhone App using MFMailComposeViewController class

Answer 1

+2 A:

You can't use images with relative paths like that in mail because that will try and look for the file from the recipients mail client.

You can either embed the image using the base64 encoded object (google html base64 image) or upload the image to a publicly accessible web server and reference the absolute URL for the image from your mail, that way the recipient's mail client can always access it.

nduplessis 2010-07-20 11:13:00

If you mean a "data:image/jpeg,...." URI, they aren't supported by many mail clients. Sane mail clients do not open external images either.

tc. 2010-07-20 12:14:06

The alternative to the methods described above is to add the image as an attachment, but form the code it doesn't look like this is what the OP wants to achieve. It looks like the image is being used as part of an HTML formatted message so adding an attachment is no good

nduplessis 2010-07-20 14:17:44

Answer 2

+1 A:

Add it as an image/jpeg attachment. It will appear at the bottom of your message but above the signature.

There are lots of other potential ways, but they're all a bit crap.

tc. 2010-07-20 12:15:44

Answer 3

A:

Here is the code which was working for me,

Class mailClass = (NSClassFromString(@"MFMailComposeViewController"));

        if (mailClass != nil)
        {

            // We must always check whether the current device is configured for sending emails


            UIImage *viewImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();

            UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
            MFMailComposeViewController *composeVC = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
            composeVC.mailComposeDelegate = self;
            [composeVC setSubject:@"test"];
            NSString *messageBody = @"";
            [composeVC setMessageBody:messageBody isHTML:NO];
            UIImage *artworkImage = viewImage;
            NSData *artworkJPEGRepresentation = nil;
            if (artworkImage)
            {
                artworkJPEGRepresentation = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(artworkImage, 0.7);
            }
            if (artworkJPEGRepresentation) 
            {
                [composeVC addAttachmentData:artworkJPEGRepresentation mimeType:@"image/jpeg" fileName:@"Quote.jpg"];
            }

            NSString *emailBody = @"Find out more  App at <a href='http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/test/id319692005' target='_self'>Test</a>";//add code
            const char *urtfstring = [emailBody UTF8String];
            NSData *HtmlData = [NSData dataWithBytes:urtfstring length:strlen(urtfstring)];
            [composeVC addAttachmentData:HtmlData mimeType:@"text/html" fileName:@""];
            //Add code
            [self presentModalViewController:composeVC animated:YES];
            [composeVC release];
            [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
            UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

milanjansari 2010-07-20 12:40:59

I followed the above code and the message body appeared as a tiny icon with [HTML] on it, don't know what I am doing wrong.

Snackmoore 2010-07-21 10:33:55

Yes, but when we get mail that time it display fine. and let me know it working or not.

milanjansari 2010-07-28 05:45:24

Answer 4

+3 A:

I strongly believe (from your question) that your image SG10002_1.jpg is located in main bundle.
If it is so, then below code should work for you. It's a complete hack from this question.

- (void)createEmail {
//Create a string with HTML formatting for the email body
    NSMutableString *emailBody = [[[NSMutableString alloc] initWithString:@"<html><body>"] retain];
 //Add some text to it however you want
    [emailBody appendString:@"<p>Some email body text can go here</p>"];
 //Pick an image to insert
 //This example would come from the main bundle, but your source can be elsewhere
    UIImage *emailImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"myImageName.png"];
 //Convert the image into data
    NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithData:UIImagePNGRepresentation(emailImage)];
 //Create a base64 string representation of the data using NSData+Base64
    NSString *base64String = [imageData base64EncodedString];
 //Add the encoded string to the emailBody string
 //Don't forget the "<b>" tags are required, the "<p>" tags are optional
    [emailBody appendString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<p><b><img src='data:image/png;base64,%@'></b></p>",base64String]];
 //You could repeat here with more text or images, otherwise
 //close the HTML formatting
    [emailBody appendString:@"</body></html>"];
    NSLog(@"%@",emailBody);

 //Create the mail composer window
    MFMailComposeViewController *emailDialog = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
    emailDialog.mailComposeDelegate = self;
    [emailDialog setSubject:@"My Inline Image Document"];
    [emailDialog setMessageBody:emailBody isHTML:YES];

    [self presentModalViewController:emailDialog animated:YES];
    [emailDialog release];
    [emailBody release];
}

sugar 2010-07-20 12:49:32

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