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Andre
10-11-2007, 04:54 PM
Anyone else having a problem with images not showing up in the email?

Andre
Andre
10-11-2007, 05:40 PM
When an email with an image in it is parsed, the images are getting stripped and left out.

Andre
Andre
10-11-2007, 08:10 PM
Well, after some more testing I've found that only embedded images sent from Outlook don't show up correctly. Attachments work fine. Embedded images from evolution client work fine as well. Just stinking Microsoft and their cowboy way of writing code I guess.

I take it there is likely no fix to the embedded images within Outlook emails, so my next question would be, does anyone know of a good screen grabber program to help users effortlessly take screenshot and put it into an email??

Andre
jstanden
10-13-2007, 09:08 PM
Hey Andre,

The images you're talking about are called 'inline images' -- they're generally just an encoded (e.g., base64) chunk directly inside the message source. They don't always have a filename.

It's certainly possible to handle these images by assigning them a filename when necessary and making them a normal attachment.

I've added this to the roadmap:
http://www.wgmdev.com/jira/browse/CHD-221

As for good screen capture tools, my favorites are:
* For any application, cross-platform: Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/)
* For web pages, the Firefox extension called Screengrab! (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146)

I don't know your users, so I'm not sure those will be effortless enough. ;) How did they do it before, just hit 'Print Screen' and paste into Outlook?

Thanks!
Andre
10-15-2007, 02:09 PM
Yeah that's exactly how they did it.

Andre
jstanden
10-17-2007, 10:03 PM
We can just support inline images for you so your users can keep doing things the simple way.

I added the task to the roadmap in my last post. I'll see if I can get somebody assigned to implement that. It's rather straightforward.

Thanks!
Hildy
12-07-2007, 09:30 PM
Inline images are now supported in SVN rev 454.

If there are multiple items with the same filename, they will receive a numbered suffix to identify them. Items with no filename will be given one (and a suffix if necessary). Because the mimetype is provided, clicking on a linked image will open it in the browser.
jstanden
12-08-2007, 01:51 AM
Inline images are now supported in SVN rev 454.

Excellent work! :)