Inline Images / Embedded Images

Lisa · March 2013

Hi,

regarding the topics already discussed in
http://forum.sendy.co/discussion/497/is-addembeddedimage-working-under-sendy#Item_2
http://forum.sendy.co/discussion/577/avoid-click-here-to-show-images-warning/p1

I am not sure what the current status is. I think it's a common problem that major mail clients like Microsoft Outlook do not load pictures from URLs by default. And yes, only pictures loaded from Sendy-URLs are able to track.

But: From our experience it makes sense to create a mail with inline pictures based on cid:-URLs ( to my knowledge AddEmbeddedImage in PHP or 'ContentDispostion.Inline' in C#) because these mails are perfect in mail clients like Outlook.

In addition (!) we alway add a 1x1 public-URL image for tracking and convert the link-URLs to track clicks.

Now... any chance to make this happen in Sendy?

Thanks,
Lisa

Ben · March 2013

Hi Lisa,

Please see this most recent thread http://forum.sendy.co/discussion/861/base64-encoded-images#Item_4

Amazon SES does not support embedded images.

Thanks.

Ben

Lisa · March 2013

Hi Ben,

thanks... that was me who asked in the other thread ;-).

But there's a difference: I am not talking about 'data URIs', these are not supported by SES, thanks for the information. I am talking about 'inline attachments'. These are supported by SES, they are even suggested by the Amazon-Guy in the same forum thread you are pointing to:

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Unfortunately, there isn't a simple workaround at this time. I can think of three options:
...

Modify the source process that is generating the message body to generate an inline attachment instead of a data URI.
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These kind of cid-references are created by using standard attachments (things you already support) and adding a content-id to these attachments. Now you can refer to this attachment 'inline', see this sample in PHP:

PHP: $mail->AddEmbeddedImage('my-photo.jpg', 'my-photo', 'my-photo.jpg ');

Usage: <img src="cid:my-photo" alt="my-photo" />

see source:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1851728/how-to-embed-images-in-html-email

This shouldn't be a problem with SES, using this image embedding PLUS having a 1x1-image for tracking and Sendy is the ultimate mailer ;-)

Thanks,
Lisa

addactive · March 2013

I thought emails with CID reference attachments were generally flagged as being more likely to be spam?

Lisa · March 2013

Not really - from our experience they are the only mails that work in enterprise environments. 'late loading' of images in mails is often denied by policy and that means all mails look ugly - always ;-).

Lisa

Ben · March 2013

@addactive - That's what I read about http://www.paperstreet.com/blog/1704

@Lisa - I'll put this under the 'suggestions' category and will consider it for future updates. Thanks for your detailed description

Lisa · March 2013

Thanks! like I said, I would implement this feature as an 'advanced' send option. But it's a great feature and please have a look in the comments section of the paperstreet-link you posted to addactive... CIDs are displayed in Nearly ALL clients correctly today!

thanks,
Lisa

sunebeck · June 2013

I notice that in Sendy, you can now add attachments to a mail. Can that be used for embedding inline images?

Maarten · November 2015

Any update on this? WIll you consider implementing this feature?

tsehested · April 2016

Hi Ben, as far as I have seen in phplist this is a few lines of code, but makes a huge difference in delivery and display of any newsletter with images in it. Is this something that is in the pipeline and what is the timeframe?
If not please let us know, I will have to move 2 clients to other systems then.
Thanks,
Thomas

Ben · April 2016

@tsehested Amazon SES still does not support base64 encoded images at this time though.

UPDATE

Amazon now supports base64 encoded images (images embedded with data URI)

Inline Images / Embedded Images

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