Jeffery Small wrote: > m...@raf.org writes: > > >Jeffery Small wrote: > > >> Is there any convenient way to craft an email message using mutt that > >> embeds a jpeg image within the body of the message for those reading > >> with an HTML mail program, while still attaching it for others who use a > >> text-based reader like mutt? > > raf wrote: > > >you don't need to resort to html parts. you just need to make sure that > >the content disposition of the image attachment is "inline" rather than > >"attachment". to do this, after attaching the image file, while viewing > >the list of parts before sending the message, use the arrow keys if > >necessary to navigate to the image attachment and press Ctrl-D which > >toggles the disposition between inline and attachment. each time you press > >Ctrl-D, the first character on the left hand side toggle between "A" and > >"I" to indicate the disposition. > > >cheers, > >raf > > raf: > > Thanks for the great reply. I did not realize that this could be done in > mutt! However, I tried this out and it did not work. I composed a message > and then attached a jpeg file which was listed in the compose menu as: > > -- Attachments > > - I 1 /tmp/mutt-cjsa2-102-11172-13795190124143 [text/plain, 7bit, > 0.1K] > A 2 Image.jpg [image/jpeg, base64, > 367K] > > I toggled the jpeg to inline: > > -- Attachments > > - I 1 /tmp/mutt-cjsa2-102-11172-13795190124143 [text/plain, 7bit, > 0.1K] > I 2 Image.jpg [image/jpeg, base64, > 367K] > > And then sent the message to someone using Outlook on Windows XP. > Unfortunately, the message still appears to the recipient as a text message > with and attached jpeg file rather than displaying the image inline with > the message. Is there something obvious that I am missing? > > Regards, > -- > Jeff
sorry i can't think of anything else. that should have worked. that's what the content-disposition is supposed to mean but outlook must have its own ideas about such things. it works in thunderbird. cheers, raf
