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My apologies if this question has already been asked and answered ad nausium, but I am attempting a promotional html email in which I have two or three small jpg images.
I created the html in Dreamweaver and then poured the html into my Netscape (7.1) Mail (in compose/insert/html). I have set and rebooted with Netscape Mail's "Forward Messages" (Preferences/Mail & Newsgroups/Composition) drop-down list set "Inline" instead of "Attach."
My image path leads to images residing on my isp’s server. When I send a test email to my personal Hotmail account, the images appear just fine (as they should) in the body of the html message, but they also appear as attachments - which bugs me!
Is there a script to solve this? Or must I resort to inflating the size of the email by embedding the images? If embedding is the answer, how is this done? Or is Hotmail just flaky?
I've never seen the situation you describe. Sometimes mail servers will take a small attachment and display it inline - but then it's not also show as an attachment.
I'd suggest another try, because it sounds like somehow you attached images and then also put the image calls in the email - perhaps through making changes as you composed it.
Also, I would try sending the identical message to your regular ISP account as well as Hotmail. That would probably give you some additional clues to what's happening.
it works fine for me, i just tried with hotmail as well
If you want to change the way Hotmail does this, simply buy Microsoft from Bill Gates and then give the order for it to be changed. If you can't do that, you'll have to put up with it.
Interestingly, this morning, Netscape support replied to me and said this problem between Netscape Mail 7.1 and Hotmail is a known bug. So I guess there may be no way around it for the time being.
To: Patrick, Actually that is what I am doing. Somehow though the Hotmail system reads those images off the server and sees them as attachments.
