html email from gmail to outlook?

[xander]

What I want to do is send an email with an image in it that comes from a web
address. I'm composing my email in gmail's editor and am sending it to my
outlook address. I'm currently testing it via microsoft web access, but hope
i can format an email that will display correctly both via microsoft web
access and when i use outlook 2003.


I composed an email in gmail's editor with just this as the body:

<img src="http://www.website.com/img.jpg>

....and expected this to show an image, but it just shows as text?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

AFAIK, GMail only uses Plain Text.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, xander asked:

| What I want to do is send an email with an image in it that comes
| from a web address. I'm composing my email in gmail's editor and am
| sending it to my outlook address. I'm currently testing it via
| microsoft web access, but hope i can format an email that will
| display correctly both via microsoft web access and when i use
| outlook 2003.
|
|
| I composed an email in gmail's editor with just this as the body:
|
| <img src="http://www.website.com/img.jpg>
|
| ...and expected this to show an image, but it just shows as text?

 

[N. Miller]

What I want to do is send an email with an image in it that comes from a web
address. I'm composing my email in gmail's editor and am sending it to my
outlook address. I'm currently testing it via microsoft web access, but hope
i can format an email that will display correctly both via microsoft web
access and when i use outlook 2003.


I composed an email in gmail's editor with just this as the body:

<img src="http://www.website.com/img.jpg>

...and expected this to show an image, but it just shows as text?

By "outlook address", do you mean a POP3 account? MS Outlook is just a mail
agent; and has no "address", /per se/.

Trying to get the HTML component of an email message to "look right" may be
a futile endeavor. You will probably get it to "look right" in your
accounts; but, then you will send it to somebody who as selected the option
to view email as "plain text", or to somebody who has a mail agent that can
only display email as "plain text". Then all of your effort will be wasted,
anyway.