Question: How do I send an email with a picture in it without sending it as an attachment?
by Rob Nussbaum
Answer:
by Sean Henderson
If I were to send an email with images in it, but no attachment, then I would send an HTML email with the image stored on a web server somewhere. In this particular example, I’m going to send an HTML email via Outlook express using the free service Photobucket. First I’m going to upload my image to Photobucket, then I’m going to use the HTML code from Photobucket in Outlook express to send the HTML email.
Step 1: Uploading an image to a web server:
Go to http://photobucket.com/ and either signup a new account or log into an existing account. Then upload your image to Photobucket. In this case, I’ve uploaded an image of a devilbat. Copy the code from the Tag textbox. This will be the HTML we use in our email.
Photobucket’s Tag code looks like this:
[code lang="HTML"]
[/code]
Note that the Photobucket code includes a link to Photobucket.
To remove the link, delete the all the crap out to get this instead:
[code lang="HTML"]
[/code]
Step 2: Inserting the HTML code into an email in Outlook Express
Open Outlook Express and Create a new email. Click on the Source tab to show the HTML source code to the email. You’ll notice that Outlook has already inserted a bunch of code. Look for the <DIV> and </DIV> tags. You want to paste your Photobucket code between those tags. Then click back over to the Edit tab and finish writing your message.
That should get you started.
it will still be embedded as attachment in most cases.
Does photobucket work with yahoo?
I don’t currently know of a way to view the source of a yahoo email in the web browser. I’m thinking it would work if you could set up your yahoo mail in outlook or other mail software that supports editing the source of the html.
i am trying to send photo without an attachment from gmail or yahoo will you please reply
How can I do this from an Apple Mac computer using mail?
to send without attachment you should do one more thing, which is; go to outlook express, from tools menu click options, click send tab, under the Mail Sending Format, click HTML Settings, and remove the tick from Send pictures with messages. Now you can send html mail without attachments at all =)
ur welcome.
Hi, im trying to embed an image in mt apple email and still comes out like an attachment.
Can you help??
possible to do this with gmail? Would really like to find out
there is another way of doing without using the photobucket?
Try Flickr.com. Upload photos and copy-paste them in message box. Thats all. But use internet explorer only..
No body has understood the question properly. The Question is how to send picture (1) without attatchment (2) without using HTML link (3) without uploading to any internet site.
Even though the intranet server blocks the pictures as attatchment Some mails are sent with pitctures / animations successfully. How ?
It’s a good idea, but I don’t find a way to send an image directly from -for example- hotmail sending page, i try to use HTML code, it doesn’t work, is there a way for that?
Thanks any way.
how about with firefox on mac, please?!
Cool method, but every one doesn’t use Outlook Express, some use the e-mail editor only, So what about them ???
This was a question a friend asked me a long time ago. Please stop asking me to do in a million other email programs. Thanks guys. Sorry I couldnt help everyone.
I just don’t have the time to do this for free.
Maybe if theres enough demand, I’ll write a program to make this work automatically in a million different email clients. For now, NO.
I want more information
“Cool method, but every one doesn’t use Outlook Express, some use the e-mail editor only, So what about them ???”
If you are using Thunderbird try adding the attribute moz-do-not-send=”true” to the images which you do not want sent as attachments.