HTML Email - <img> without src= as attachment

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Hello,

I'm sending out a fairly nicely formatted HTML mailer with images inside <img> tags.

I'm using Thunderbird (also tried with outlook) to send the email and I've found the email clients are also adding the images as attachments, which means that I lose the impact of the images in the likes of yahoo's webmail client. Not to mention, the email more likely to be spam filtered.

This isn't a mass marketing email - they are sent ad-hoc to enquiring potential clients, so I'd like to continue using an email client to send them rather than a tool such as MailChimp.

I know you can add an image link to an email in Thunderbird and force it not to attach the image, but that's not so practical when sending a mailer which links to 9 or 10 images.

Any suggestions/help with this? Either forcing Thunderbird not to attach the images or an alternative mail client.

Thanks
Daniel
 
watch mailchimp. we've spotted issues where they default their image URL to HTTPS. any recipient on Outlook 2010 and a secure web proxy wont be able to view the images. once you add the images you have to manually amend the HTML to HTTP.

im not overly familiar with thunderbird but presumably the images are hosted online somewhere? do you have example of the HTML you can post (inside CODE tags)?
 
Hi Neil,
Thanks for coming back to me.

Here's an excerpt from the HTML.
Thanks again
Dan

<html>
<body>

<table width="80%" style="border: 1px solid black;"><!-- outside container -->

<tr>
<td align="center">
Struggling to read this email? Click <a href="http://www.mydomain.co.uk/resources/blah/invite.html">here</a>.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center">


<table width="98%" border="0"><!-- Header -->
<tr>
<td height="100px" align="left" ><img title="Logo: Blah blah blah" alt="blah blah blah" src="http://www.mydomain.co.uk/resources/blah/blah.jpg"</img>
</td>
<td height="100px" align="right" valign="bottom">
<h2 style="margin-bottom:10px;">blah blah</h2>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Click to expand...
 
Not sure if mail clients will like that image tag, have you tried closing it the other way?

<img title="blah blah" alt="more blah" src="myImage.gif" />
Click to expand...

Img doesn't normally have a closing tag, and the " /" keeps things xhtml compliant.
 
I've switched the image tags anyway - I'd missed the closing ">"
And I've tested sending to gmail as well as hotmail, yahoo etc.

I'm sure this is down to the mail client - doesn't seem to be deterring people from booking shoots but it would still be nice to solve.

Thanks
Dan
 
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