Magento - How to insert product image in transactional email

Question

Basically I would like to include the product image to the New Order Email sent when ordering a product.

I started in email/order/items/order/default.phtml with this code

<?php $_item = $this->getItem() ?>
<?php $_order = $this->getItem()->getOrder() ?>

How do I use this code to fetch the image?

Mage::helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image')->resize(250)

thanks for helping :)

Answer 1

Since I found the answer early I should post it here to help other s in need.. :)

<?php //added for sending image with order
        $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
        ->setStoreId($_item->getOrder()->getStoreId())
        ->load($_item->getProductId()); 
    ?>  
        <p align="center"><img src="<?php echo Mage::helper('catalog/image')->init($product, 'image')->resize(50); ?>" width="50" height="50" alt="" /></p>

just put this snippet below

<?php $_item = $this->getItem() ?>
<?php $_order = $this->getItem()->getOrder() ?>

NOTE: For gmail users, don't forget to enable Display Image.. :)

Hope this helps!