Steve Ellenoff wrote:

> At 02:57 PM 11/06/2008, you wrote:

>> HTML email never looks right, and I recommend not sending it! Send

>> plain text! Email

>> was ever only meant for plain text. If you have a snazzy page to show your

>> recipients, *link* to it from the email.

>

> I get tons of HTML emails every day (many look fantastic, ie the ones

> from reputable companies, not spammers) so I'm not sure why you might

> think it never looks right? Given today's slew of html enabled mail

> readers and ajax style online email apps, I can't see any reason why

> html formatted emails shouldn't look 100% as they do on websites when

> all the image blocking/html formatting options are turned on for

> trusted senders.

I realize it's an uphill battle I'm fighting. Rich text/html formatting *never

belonged* in email. I don't care how good people think it looks.

>> It is probably a "remote image". IOW, you didn't embed the image

>> into the email but

>> you link to it with HTML. This is deemed insecure as sneaky

>> marketers or spammers can

>> tell if you received the email by simply checking their web server logs for a

>> specific image download.

>

> This is used for an internal company email so nobody cares about the

> linked html, although I would be happy to embed my images, but last

> time I looked I recall not finding any easy tutorials on how to do

> this, perhaps it's time to look again.

Nah, don't embed them for an internal email. It'll just bloat the message.

Paul