Sending e-mail with pictures inline.

[scotty]

Thanks for everybody's help with my previous questions...

Was wondering how to send an e-mail that looks like a simple web page. A block of text at the top, and then several pictures with captions. Basically, a real estate listing.

After looking on the Microsoft site, it seems RTF is the way to go. They claim HTML can point to pictures on a server, but not pictures in an attachment.

Are there commands to make an RTF file...
Then insert JPGs or GIFs?
I am familiar with the old 'OPEN "blah" for output as x

I mostly know how to use the clipboard. Was thinking about putting the result into the clipboard and then pasting inside Outlook to keep things simple.

Thanks,
Scott

[jkurpias]

I've been working on a similar project in Access2000 VBA...with little success. The only solution I found was to send the images as JPEG attachments. Some browsers (Netscape) display the images on the email while others only display the attachment link.

In Access you can email a report form but only text is displayed and images are ignored. HTML has the problem you described.

Let me know if you find an answer or if I can help in any way...I've done a lot of research into this issue.

Jon

[scotty]

Glad to see somebody is running into the same problem I am.

My current plan is to try to figure out what makes RTF tick. My guess it that it's kinda like HTML in that there are font commands. I believe pictures are stored inside the RTF file itself... I am going to try saving a RTF from Word 97 with text and 5 simple pictures. Then look at the resulting file.

Probably going to spend some time on sunday figuring this out....I'll keep you posted.

Scott

[This message has been edited by scotty (edited 12-04-1999).]

[slbrook]

Check out www.aspemail.com (http://www.aspemail.com) for a great way to send html email out of asp.