Include web references in an e-mail.

[Mufasa]

I want to be able to send an e-mail that will point to our server -
specifically images. We change the images frequently (like hourly) and I
want the e-mail to show the 'current' one on the server. So I need to have a
refence to the file on the server, not one locally in the e-mail.

I already know this if fraught with problems (what if they aren't connected,
....) but this is what my people want to do.

How do I do this through Outlook?

TIA - Jeff.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I want to be able to send an e-mail that will point to our server -
specifically images. We change the images frequently (like hourly) and I
want the e-mail to show the 'current' one on the server. So I need to have
a refence to the file on the server, not one locally in the e-mail.

I already know this if fraught with problems (what if they aren't
connected, ...) but this is what my people want to do.

How do I do this through Outlook?

Include a UNC or a URL that points to the file on the server. Don't embed
the file at all. Let the receiver go get it.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

And be prepared for many if not most external recipients not to see the image
because they have their email program set up not to download images from the
Internet.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Mufasa]

Can you give me an example of how to do that? I've tried putting straight
HTML and it doesn't work. It always is treated as text.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Can you give me an example of how to do that? I've tried putting straight
HTML and it doesn't work. It always is treated as text.

I'd include a UNC like

<\\myserver\myshare\myfolder\myfile>

 

[Mufasa]

Whenever I do that, it converts the name to a link you need to click on. I
want it to be a link that automatically loads the image for me.

J.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

you need to insert it using the <img scr="url"> tag. you can do it either
with an HTML editor and insert the html as text or use the insert image
command.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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