send an email with picture/rich text format in the body

[anya]

Hey,
I have a certain problem and till now I didnt find an answer on the
web.

I want to send an email message with picture in it. I dont want to put
it as
attachment but make it in the body of the mail, so every one who open
the email will see the picture.. (it is possible that the solution will
be in any other format that will be opened i.e pdf, doc and I will put
this in the body )

Neither in MimeWriter nor using the definition of MymeTypes I was able
to do it ..

Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks

[Ben Finney]

"anya" <an****@gmail.c om> writes:

I want to send an email message with picture in it.
Please, reconsider. Email is a text medium.
I dont want to put it as attachment but make it in the body of the
mail, so every one who open the email will see the picture..
No, they won't; my email client displays only text, and that's the
case for a great many people on the net.
Does anyone have a solution?

If you want people to view something other than text, email is not
what you want. Give a URL to the place where they can view what you
want them to see; then they can choose a time when they are using a
graphically capable terminal.

--
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`\ for me?" -- Groucho Marx |
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Ben Finney

[Heiko Wundram]

Am Sonntag 14 Mai 2006 13:24 schrieb anya:

I want to send an email message with picture in it.
This...
I dont want to put
it as
attachment but make it in the body of the mail, so every one who open
the email will see the picture..
will...
(it is possible that the solution will
be in any other format that will be opened i.e pdf, doc and I will put
this in the body )
never...
Neither in MimeWriter nor using the definition of MymeTypes I was able
to do it ..

work.

That is, unless you design your own MIME standard, and get all email clients
out there to read your type of "structured document," which you inherently
need for including pictures directly in an email (body), as MIME (as we know
it today) only knows about stacked message parts, not about message content
and higher level formatting.

Basically, to include a picture in a body today, there's concensus that you
insert a HTML-document into one MIME part, and an <img> link refers to the
attachment that comes in another MIME part (by the filename, which is the
same as for the attached MIME part). But, as you see, this specifically
requires that the recipient is able to view HTML mails (which quite a lot of
people, even those using M$ Outlook, have turned off by default).

Anyway, read Ben Finney's response carefully. If you're trying to send out
commercial email, I'll be the first person to dump your mail if it doesn't at
least come in a format I can read (and understand!) text-only.

--- Heiko.

[Astan Chee]

what about sending the mail as html instead of normal plain/text ?
anya wrote:

Hey,
I have a certain problem and till now I didnt find an answer on the
web.

I want to send an email message with picture in it. I dont want to put
it as
attachment but make it in the body of the mail, so every one who open
the email will see the picture.. (it is possible that the solution will
be in any other format that will be opened i.e pdf, doc and I will put
this in the body )

Neither in MimeWriter nor using the definition of MymeTypes I was able
to do it ..

Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks

[Miki]

Hello Anya,

See http://docs.python.org/lib/node597.html
IMO if you'll place the picture as 1'st MutliMime part the *some* email
readers will show it like you want.

HTH,
Miki

[Ben Finney]

"Miki" <mi*********@gm ail.com> writes:

See http://docs.python.org/lib/node597.html
IMO if you'll place the picture as 1'st MutliMime part the *some* email
readers will show it like you want.

And most good spam filters will recognise it for the junk that it is,
and flag it appropriately. Messages that contain little plain text get
flagged as likely spam.

If there's useful information for the recipient to see in an email,
put it in as text. If you want to distribute files, put them online
for fetching -- and then feel free to send an email containing the URL
to the people who want those files, so they can get them at an
appropriate time, with appropriate tools.

--
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`\ |
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Ben Finney

[Ten]

On Sunday 14 May 2006 12:24, anya wrote:

Hey,
I have a certain problem and till now I didnt find an answer on the
web.

I want to send an email message with picture in it. I dont want to put
it as
attachment but make it in the body of the mail, so every one who open
the email will see the picture.. (it is possible that the solution will
be in any other format that will be opened i.e pdf, doc and I will put
this in the body )

Neither in MimeWriter nor using the definition of MymeTypes I was able
to do it ..

Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks

The problem with doing this, programmaticall y or otherwise, is that however
you implement it, it's not going to work everywhere.

You can easily send it, but if you do include binary data in the message body,
then however you do it most people will be seeing a garbled (and offensive to
the the eye) message body.

I think it's not the right thing to do, either, if you ever managed to do this
it would be by working around how email is supposed to work.

Eventually, unless you have a userbase that is happy to open things in a
particular way for you, you'll have to bite the bullet and use more orthodox
techniques, methinks.

(he says with an image in his headers)

Ten

--
There are 10 types of people in this world,
those who understand binary, and those who don't.

[Edward Elliott]

anya wrote:

I want to send an email message with picture in it. I dont want to put
it as attachment but make it in the body of the mail, so every one who
open the email will see the picture..

Step 1: convert image to ascii art
Step 2: send
Step 3: hope recipient uses a fixed-width font

--
Edward Elliott
UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
complangpython at eddeye dot net

[anya]

Acctualy there is a solution:
see http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/473810
(thanks darrin massena for sharing)

and , if you will set all the neccessary parametrs, it won't be
recognized as a
spam,
thanks

[Ten]

On Sunday 28 May 2006 07:27, anya wrote:

Acctualy there is a solution:
see http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/473810
(thanks darrin massena for sharing)

and , if you will set all the neccessary parametrs, it won't be
recognized as a
spam,
thanks

Ahah - a slightly different thing to what I thought you were after.

I'd looked at "every one who open the email will see the picture" and
discounted html mail.

Glad you got what you wanted done, done.

Ten.

--
There are 10 types of people in this world,
those who understand binary, and those who don't.