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I'm generating emails in a PHP application which attach multiple files to an HTML email. Some of the files are Excel spreadsheets, some of the files are company logos which need to be embedded in the HTML so they load by default using Content-ID and cid identifiers to refer to the attached images.
As far as I can see, my syntax is correct, but the images don't ever load inline (they are attached successfully, however).
From: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/mixed;boundary="d0f4ad49cc20d19bf96d4adf9322d567"
Message-Id: <20150421165500.0A5488021B@server>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:54:59 -0400 (EDT)
--d0f4ad49cc20d19bf96d4adf9322d567
Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
<html>
Html message goes here, followed by email.<br/>
<img src="cid:mylogo" />
</html>
--d0f4ad49cc20d19bf96d4adf9322d567
Content-type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet; name=excelsheet.xlsx
Content-Description: excelsheet.xlsx
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="excelsheet.xlsx"; size=24712;
Content-transfer-encoding:base64
[base64 encoded string goes here.]
--b19e863e2cf66b40db1d138b7009010c
Content-Type: image/jpeg;
name="mylogo.jpg"
Content-transfer-encoding:base64
Content-ID: <mylogo>
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="mylogo.jpg"; size=7579;
[base64 encoded string goes here.]
--b19e863e2cf66b40db1d138b7009010c--
Can anybody see an obvious reason why the image won't embed as expected?
EDIT
Note this behaviour isn't general to all email clients. So far only noted in Thunderbird.
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cid means you have an inline attachment so the attachment source is a part of the message's MIMEContent and a browser won't render that by default.
Position your cursor where you want the image in your message. Select Insert > Pictures. Browse your computer or online file locations for the picture you want to insert. Select the picture, then select Insert.
I noticed two issues:
The MIME-boundary is inconsistent. For the first attachment it's d0f4ad49cc20d19bf96d4adf9322d567 and then b19e863e2cf66b40db1d138b7009010c is used. Thus, technically the second attachment is "part" of the first attachment.
If you replace all b19e863e2cf66b40db1d138b7009010c by d0f4ad49cc20d19bf96d4adf9322d567 Thunderbird correctly identifies the image attachment.
Use multipart/related instead of multipart/mixed. (see RFC2387)
A multipart/related is used to indicate that each message part is a component of an aggregate whole. It is for compound objects consisting of several inter-related components - proper display cannot be achieved by individually displaying the constituent parts. The message consists of a root part (by default, the first) which reference other parts inline, which may in turn reference other parts. Message parts are commonly referenced by the "Content-ID" part header. (see Wikipedia entry for MIME multipart/related)
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