[RESOLVED] PHP Mailer - HTML images being blocked by Outlook - HTML Forums

Horus_Kol · 03-25-2008, 07:36 PM

I'm using PHP Mailer to send an HTML email with embedded images - but my Outlook client is blocking them no matter what security settings I make...

PHP Code:


			
$mail->AddEmbeddedImage('/images/logo_lg.gif', 'logo_lg', 'logo_lg.gif');

$mail->AddEmbeddedImage('/images/bg_logo.gif', 'bg_logo', 'bg_logo.gif');

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html>

<head>

	<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

</head>

<body>
	<div id="fix_width">
	
		<div id="header">
			
			<div id="left_header">
			
				<div id="main_logo"><a href="/"><img src="cid:logo_lg" alt="LOGO" title="LOGO" width="389" height="82"/></a></div>
				
			</div>
			
			<div id="center_header">
			
				<div id="breadcrumbs">
					&nbsp;	
				</div>
		
			</div>
			
		</div>
	
	</div>
	
	
	<div id="content" class="fullcontent">
	
		<div class="heading"><div class="label">Do you see images?</span></div></div>
		
		<div class="content_box">
			Please, let me know!!!
		</div>
		
		<div class="heading"><div class="label">Section Heading</span></div></div>
		
		<div class="content_box">
			Content
		</div>
		
		<div class="end_marker"></div>
	
	</div>
	
	<div id="footer"></div>
</body>

Vege · 03-26-2008, 06:35 AM

Are you normally seeing images in outlook? Atleast in thunderbird you have to specifically turn the images on.
And if you can see images in other messages, you can prolly just check the mail source to see how they are build.

Horus_Kol · 03-26-2008, 06:37 PM

yes, images are normally displayed... the problem isn't just that they are blocked - I am completely unable to unblock them....

i think the problem is due to my embedding them into the email and using the "cid:" source instead of linking to the image on the webserver...

Horus_Kol · 03-26-2008, 09:00 PM

found it:

PHP Code:


			
$mail->AddEmbeddedImage('/images/logo_lg.gif', 'logo_lg', 'logo_lg.gif');
if ($mail->IsError()) {
  echo $mail->ErrorInfo;
}

gave me the information that I needed - the file could not be located...

I was using a URL relative to the server document root - but I need a full server path... whoops

what Outlook was really trying to say was "there is no image" - instead of "blocked, and you can't unblock it"