HTML email with inline images (using Content-ID)

I'd like to send a HTML email message with inline images (i.e. reference image attachments instead of using "pullfile").

This is done by using the following in the HTML email body:

and adding the attachment with the following MIME header:

Content-ID: <logo>

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Content-ID for details.

Is it possible to add this extra MIME header though the EasyLink API?

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skamens

Sorry - our system does not support sending inline images at this time.

thuneke

Multipart Content-ID is a feature that is not supported by our email messageReach sytem.

n079614

Is there any change to the support of inline images? Perhaps with the new 2.5 API?

thuneke

No, your current code, if built under a previous version will work if submitted to the current URL. Are you having issues?

Tom

n079614

I'm not having any issues. I just wondered if the new 2.5 API could send emails with inline images using Multipart Content-ID. From my understanding, all that is required is for the image attachment to have a MIME header called Content-ID.

The reason I ask is that our formatting software uses a 1x1 pixel graphic to format the content of the html email body. So when we send emails, every email message with a html body will require at least one pull file - this is great for tracking but these emails already have other graphics that could be used for tracking too. I'm not privy to the financials of our proposed contract but I believe that we will be charged for every pull file - it would be nice to eliminate one unnecessary pull file charge.

skamens

There is no current plan to implement multipart/related embedded images. It's certainly possible, but we do not currently have it on our roadmap.

If you would like to see it done, I suggest contacting your sales account team to ask them to bring the question up with our product management department so it can get onto the schedule.

In the meantime, there are other ways to provide your 1x1 GIF without using a pull. Some options:

You can host the image on your own web server - obviously the load for retrieving such a tiny image wouldn't be very high, and you wouldn't have to use a pull to send it.
You could place a 1x1 gif onto the customer file store, which is a service that we provide. Customer File Store can be accessed via the web, so this way you could include a reference to the GIF in your HTML and have it retrieved from our web server instead of yours.

I hope this helps.

n079614

Excellent suggestions - thanks.

I'll have to find out more about the Customer File Store :-)