Can an HTML email body reference a file sent as an attachment (in the same email)?

Question

Can an HTML email use an image attachment as the source for tag?

Let's say I am sending an email with per-email specific images - and they are sent as an attachment to the email - can the HTML body within the email use the those images? My guess would be no, but are there any hacks or workarounds that would make it work?

Thanks,

Answer 1

No hacks needed. Use the cid: URI scheme

 --boundary-example 1
 Content-Type: Text/HTML; charset=US-ASCII

 to the other body part, for example through a statement such as:
 <IMG SRC="cid:foo4*[email protected]" ALT="IETF logo">

 --boundary-example-1

 Content-ID: <foo4*[email protected]>
 Content-Type: IMAGE/GIF
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64

 R0lGODlhGAGgAPEAAP/////ZRaCgoAAAACH+PUNvcHlyaWdodCAoQykgMTk5
 NSBJRVRGLiBVbmF1dGhvcml6ZWQgZHVwbGljYXRpb24gcHJvaGliaXRlZC4A
 etc...

 --boundary-example-1--