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I am currently using the following VBS script to send an email and it works fine, however the image is sent as an attachment. I would instead like to embed the image into the email. I understand that I must reference the attachment in the HTML body of the email but I am struggling to do this.
Any suggestions?
Dim ToAddress
Dim FromAddress
Dim MessageSubject
Dim MyTime
Dim MessageBody
Dim MessageAttachment
Dim ol, ns, newMail
MyTime = Now
ToAddress = "[email protected]"
MessageSubject = "Auto Stats " & MyTime
MessageBody = "Stats Attached" & vbCrLf & "Produced at " & MyTime
MessageAttachment = "P:\stats.png"
Set ol = WScript.CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set ns = ol.getNamespace("MAPI")
Set newMail = ol.CreateItem(olMailItem)
newMail.Subject = MessageSubject
newMail.Body = MessageBody
newMail.RecipIents.Add(ToAddress)
newMail.Attachments.Add(MessageAttachment)
newMail.Send
465
use the code below
Const PR_ATTACH_MIME_TAG = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x370E001E"
Const PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001E"
Const PR_ATTACHMENT_HIDDEN = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x7FFE000B"
Sub testing2()
Dim ToAddress
Dim FromAddress
Dim MessageSubject
Dim MyTime
Dim MessageBody
Dim MessageAttachment
Dim ol, ns, newMail
Dim realAttachment
MyTime = Now
ToAddress = "[email protected]"
MessageSubject = "Auto Stats " & MyTime
MessageBody = "Stats Attached" & vbCrLf & "Produced at " & MyTime
MessageAttachment = "C:\Users\Public\Pictures\Sample Pictures\Penguins.jpg"
Set ns = Outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set newMail = Outlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
newMail.Subject = MessageSubject
newMail.Body = MessageBody
newMail.Recipients.Add (ToAddress)
Set realAttachment = newMail.Attachments.Add(MessageAttachment)
Set oPA = realAttachment.PropertyAccessor
oPA.SetProperty PR_ATTACH_MIME_TAG, "image/jpeg"
oPA.SetProperty PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID, "myident" 'change myident for another other image
newMail.HTMLBody = newMail.HTMLBody & "<IMG align=baseline border=0 hspace=0 src=cid:myident>" 'need to match the "myident" above
newMail.Send
End Sub
Hope it helps
104
I tested this in outlook 2003 and 2016
'I do have a solution, and that is to convert the Body to HTML
Dim ToAddress
Dim FromAddress
Dim MessageSubject
Dim MyTime
Dim MessageBody
Dim MessageAttachment
Dim ol, ns, newMail
MyTime = Now
ToAddress = "[email protected]"
MessageSubject = "Auto Stats " & MyTime
' The trick is to convert all the message body into HTML
' Don't mix script text and HTML. Then simply add an HTML image reference.
' Remember if the recipient can't get to the image
' it won't appear in the email body, and will be blank. So don't use a local image.
' Use an recipient reachable image.
MessageBody = "<html>Stats Attached" & "<p>Produced at " & MyTime & _
"<p><img src=""http://somedomain.com/.../stats.png""></html><br>"
'MessageAttachment = "P:\stats.png" ! Now Uneccessary
Set ol = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set ns = ol.getNamespace("MAPI")
Set newMail = ol.CreateItem(olMailItem)
newMail.Subject = MessageSubject
newMail.htmlBody = MessageBody 'Changed the newmMail.Body to newMail.htmlBody
newMail.RecipIents.Add(ToAddress)
'newMail.Attachments.Add(MessageAttachment) !This was removed because it would just appear as email attachment
newMail.Display
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