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embed photo in email's body using mutt and html

i'm trying to embed a photo in an email body with HTML using mutt 1.9.4 after searching i cam up with this command:

mutt -e "set content_type=text/html" -s "SUBJECT" -a IMAGE.jpeg -- [email protected] < mail.html

where the html file is:

<html>

<body> <img src="cid:image.jpeg" /> </body>

</html>

i get the photo as an attachment rather then embedded in the email's body

if i use this:

<body> <img src="image.jpeg" /> </body>

i get this broken image icon --> 1

what am i doing wrong here?

Solution

  • ok the issue is that Google is blocking binary and base64 images, the solution was to add the photo from a URL:

    <img src='http://www.example.com/image.jpg'>