I'm trying to send mails to some users which are basically built over images. How can I get those images to download by default in the users' (outlook) mailbox?
I did try encoding the image in base64 and sending it, not as a hosted image but embedded in email-html. But that too, did not work :( (I was SO sure that it would)
The client (organization) is well aware of this (that we'll be exchanging mails). Is there any setting that can be tweaked in the admin panel of MSExchange or o365 which can allow this?
Users have to have that set in their preferences. You cannot make it automatically do it as an email sender due to SPAM senders and security reasons.
Outlook allows adding hidden attachments, you may refer mention they in the message body (embedded images). In the message body you may see the following tags:
<img src="cid:some-image-cid" alt="img" />
The "cid:" prefix means that name refers to the attached image with the specified content ID.
Attachment attachment = newMail.Attachments.Add(
#"E:\Pictures\image001.jpg",
OlAttachmentType.olEmbeddeditem, null, "Some image display name");
string imageCid = "image001.jpg#123";
attachment.PropertyAccessor.SetProperty(
"http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001E", imageCid);
String.Format("<body><img src=\"cid:{0}\"></body>", imageCid);
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I am wondering how services like mailchimp detect email opens
I read it's because they add a 1x1 pixel image
Can someone tell me how this is done on my server ? I am using AWS :)
I would also like to know how these services detect things like device and browser/email client
I read it's because they add a 1x1 pixel image
True
Can someone tell me how this is done on my server ? I am using AWS :)
The usual approach is to set the image source attribute to a URL on your web server that includes a query string parameter that you can track back to a particular user, for example a hash of the user's email address or their ID in your system, e.g. in the email you send you add a tag like this
<img src="http://example.com/track?id=42 width="1" height="1" />
That forces the email client to load the URL http://example.com/track, which would return a 1x1 transparent image and also log that the ID 42 requested that image.
Note that some email clients block images from some domains. If the user has you in their contacts list, chances are pretty good the image will be shown. Some ISPs will consider your sending reputation, your implementation of email security standards (e.g. SPF/DMARC) and other factors in deciding whether to actually request and display the pixel data.
In standard situation when you would like to create an Email through CRM 2013 user interface, you fill sender, recipient, subject and body of email and send it.
But in one specific situation, the body (description) field can be disabled and you are not able to insert any text inside.
The cause of the problem is the setting called Use secure frames to restrict email message content. So if you have the problem with the body field, go to the Settings->Administration->System Settings->Email tab. Find section Set Email form options and set Use secure frames to restrict email message content to No. That's all.
We checked this solution, we have the same issue in CRM 2016 8.0 but for us, this setting is already set to "No" and the body is disabled until we save the record.
I am working on an application with xpages.I would like to send emails with that contain links.
When I send the link, it does not appear in clickable format.Can someone help me to have clickable format?
Thank you
var db = session.getCurrentDatabase();
var memo = db.createDocument();
memo.appendItemValue("Body","http://www.my_link.com");
memo.appendItemValue("Form", "Memo");
memo.appendItemValue("Subject", "New task !");
var t = mail.getValue();
memo.send(t);
If you do it like this, the "Body"- Item is a simple Text- Item and not a Richtext- Item. Text- Items cannot contain clickable links.
You have to explicitly define Body as a NotesRichtextItem and append text to it:
var rtitem:NotesRichTextItem = memo.createRichTextItem("Body");
rtitem.appendText("http://www.my_link.com");
rtitem.addNewLine();
This way the link will automatically be converted to a clickable hotspot.
If you are hoping that the statement memo.appendItemValue("Body","http://www.my_link.com"); will create a rich text field with link then it won't. For that use NotesRichTextItem class. You could also look into this Technote on how to create HTML formatted mail messages.
One question here, where will the recipient would be viewing this mail? In Notes client or this mail would be sent to IDs like Gmail or Yahoo? If recipient would be viewing this mail in Lotus Notes then you would have to enable this setting in your Notes client.
Go to File > Preferences > Basic Notes Client Configuration. Under the section Additional options enable the setting Make Internet URLs (http://.......) into Hotspots.
If the mail is being sent to IDs like Gmail or Yahoo then you would be at their mercy on how links are displayed. But in my experience they always display links, if they are in valid format.
I'm using Viewpoint to retrieve email from an Exchange server for creation of objects in a Ruby on Rails app.
I'm able to see that an image has been included, inline, in the body of an email, like so:
<img src=\"cid:94C552FB-8474-437C-AB44-DDF809047AB9\" type=\"image/png\">
And I can see an attachments node in the item blob, too:
:attachments=>{
:file_attachment=>{
:content_type=>{
:text=>"image/png"
},
:content_id=>{
:text=>"94C552FB-8474-437C-AB44-DDF809047AB9"
},
:attachment_id=>{
:id=>"AAMkAGEzNmExNzEzLTcxMjEtNDM5YS04NmE0LWE0NWU3MWZiMjEwNgBGAAAAAAB4VZcbdHrATrbGrKL0ANCfBwCjSVkOjPEtQoJN3xOKeIYJAAzyZ5e9AACjSVkOjPEtQoJN3xOKeIYJAA25w05NAAABEgAQAK9ad+6BP7VHru83AO7CTrU="
},
:name=>{
:text=>"Hollowbody 2.png"
}
}
}
My question is, how do I turn any of this into a URL suitable for use as the src of an img tag? I've seen answers like this one, but they appear to have special privileges in that
They're running in C#, which has special understanding of Exchange and the way it handles resource (I assume)
They appear to be running on the same server as Exchange, and have access to the same tmp directory where attachments are held.
If you're on another machine in another language, how do you get to these images? I know it's possible, since there are email clients on everything from mobile phones to refrigerators that can receive emails from Exchange/Outlook and render the image…
I am trying to embed an ID into an email so that when a recipient replies to an email that my system sends out, my system can pick it up and match the two together.
I have tried appending a custom header, however this is stripped out when the user replies.
I have tried embedding an HTML comment within the email, but outlook does not seem to keep comments when a reply email is created.
Worst case scenario, I can manually try and match the sent and received emails by time span or have a visible tag within the message body.
Does anyone know of a more elegant solution?
Thanks in advance
Email messages already contain such an identifiers, called Message-ID. And there's even a way to send which message you're replying to by sending that ID in a header called In-Reply-To. That's done by pretty much all email clients, that's how they usually do their threading.
It's defined in RFC 822 (yep that's pretty old) and probably re-defined and refined in more modern versions of that.
I have seen a method that includes a one byte image with a unique name that's linked to the user. When they view the email and download the images, your HTTP server will record a hit for that unique image. Of course the user needs to display images, but you can include a message in the body asking them to display the images. We actually include content in an image so they need to show images.
If your incoming e-mail can handle +foo or -foo suffixes, use that.
Many e-mail systems can route user+foo#example.com or user-foo#example.com
to user#example.com. You can replace foo with some kind of identifier.
Several mailing list servers use this for tracking bounces.
While I can't say for certain, my investigation in that sort of matter some time ago yielded the following "conclusion":
Headers are transformed a lot
Message bodies are transformed a lot
This is partly because, I suspect, of:
Need to protect users from malicious intentions
Need to perform "targeted marketing"
I have seen "unique codes" flying around in clear text in the email body but I would suggest having a unique identifier embedded in the return address instead.
The usual approach is to place the id in the subject line and/or somewhere visible in the message text and informing the recipient that he should not modify the subject or quote the original mail when responding.