Also i believe there's some sort of security in Outlook that prevents reading of files off your disks. An alternative to this could be .... mime-encode the images and attach them to the email to use them in the HTML layout.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 8:54 PM To: Palit, Nilanjan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] A non-perl html question - any ideas? Quoting "Palit, Nilanjan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Apologies for posting this in this forum - but I really need to > resolve this > and don't know where to post this question - any suggestions or > pointers to > any other question/message boards would be greatly appreciated. > > I'm sending an html formatted email (Perl generated) which is being > read in > Outlook. It contains a link to a Windows network drive in the format: > > <a href="file://NetworkSharedDriveName/path/path1/.../file.gif">Image > file</a> > > (To stress: please note that this is a file on a shared drive - not a > http > link) > > However, Outlook fails to recognize that as a valid URL. If I type > the exact > same link into IE (the "file://..." piece), it recognizes it & pulls > up the > image file. The format looks a little unusual to me. I usually see file: links with three forward slashes, so your reference would be "file:/// NetworkSharedDriveName/path/path1/.../file.gif" in the sample you sent. This might be part of the issue... ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
