Naveen Bhatia said:
Hi,
I want to send an email newsletter. I don't want the images to be blocked
when the subscriber opens the email as by default all the images are
blocked if my email address is not in the address book and user needs to
right click on it to download the images. I want to avoid this situation.
Please let me know how to do this.
Don't link to the picture. Many users, and by default in install (for
Outlook versions that support it), the linked content will get blocked so,
for example, to avoid web bugs or huge downloads (like pictures when all the
recipient wants in the text, especially since the majority of users are
still on dial-up and not broadband).
Insert the image into the body of your e-mail. You can also copy/paste into
the body of your message. That means you will need to send in HTML format
(RTF will work, too, but only Outlook recipients will be able to read it,
and some hops along the route can mangle RTF). This will also add your
image as an attachment but it will be with disposition=inline to appear
within your message (as opposed to disposition=attached which has the e-mail
client show it as a separate attachment). However, if the user configures
their e-mail client to block images, you can't change that (obviously you
don't get to control anyone else's software on their hosts). If they want
to see the pics in your mails, it will be their choice to retrieve those
portions of your mails.
If the images are tiny, like a GIF for your company logo, consider the fact
that your mails will take longer to download. Binaries that are added to
e-mails have to get encoded in a text form which results in them occupying a
third, or more, their original size, so your 50KB picture could balloon to
100K. Many users still use dial-up so they would have to waste time waiting
for your large message to download, and they may not want nor need the
picture. Instead choose to be polite and provide them with a link to the
picture that you save on a server somewhere, like under a directory for your
personal web page. If they want to look at it, they can click on it to then
download it. Be polite to ALL your recipients.
Another reason to use links instead of embedding the images is how fast you
want to spew out your mails. Embedding the pictures, whether as an
attachment or inline, means the size of your message is much larger. This
means it will take longer to send each copy of your message. You might hit
your ISP's anti-spam quotas, like maximum daily or monthly bandwidth or
maximum size of message. In any case, it will take you longer to send your
picture-ridden mails simply because they are much bigger. A link would make
your mails smaller so you can send faster and recipients can receive faster,
and the recipients can decide how they want to configure their e-mail
clients regarding display of inline content.
