Re: sending HTML emails with images ..

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I was using outlook. If I send the email to another person who uses an
actual email program like outlook or thunderbird it works fine. If they
use a web based email program like hotmail or Gmail then it downloads
my image to their sever and substitutes my image link for one on their
server. I look at the HTML for the email and I see a hotmail link where
my image link used to be. I want to be able to keep my image link
always, is there anyway to do this?

Michael Santovec wrote:
What mail program are you using to send?

Have you looked at the message source in your Sent Items folder. If
it's still the link to your web site, then there's probably nothing you
can do about it.

Some mail programs such as Outlook Express have a setting that controls
whether the link or embedded image attachment is sent. In Outlook
Express that setting is at Tools, Options, Send, Mail HTML Settings,
Send Pictures.

By the way, did you look at the code that Hotmail is substituting? It
might be that's it's not actually caching the image but rather passing
it through some security program checking for viruses or perhaps
handling the user option of whether or not to load external images.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


<hurricane_number_one@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1160097172.689992.314500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
When I send an HTML email to a hotmail account with a image that is
linked to another site, it sends the image as an attachement and
stores
it on the hotmail servers. I don't want to send the actual image and I
want it to be stored on my server and not cached. Is there any way to
do this?

The email source for the image looks like this:

<img src="http://www.myserver.com/image.gif";>

but when I view the source for the hotmail email it changes the image
to something this:

<img
src="http://by1306fd.bay1062.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg?&msg=543D6804-...";>

but I want to keep it the same as it was sent, is there anyway to do
this or is hotmail always going
to cache it and strip out my image link?


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