Question

CI am using MVC.ActionMailer to send emails from my website. I am having issues with embedding an inline image into the email.

Here is my Controller Action

public EmailResult WelcomeEmail()
    {
        WelcomeMailVM welcomeDetails = new WelcomeMailVM()
        var path = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Content/images/myImage.png");
        Attachments.Add("myImage.png", System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(path));
        //Attachments.Inline["holidaymate.png"] = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(path);
        To.Add("[e-mail]");
        From = "[e-mail]";
        Subject = "Welcome to My Site;
        return Email("WelcomeEmail", welcomeDetails);
    }

and the view for the email

@model HolidayMate.API.ViewModels.Mail.WelcomeMailVM
@using ActionMailer.Net.Mvc

@{
     Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_MailLayout.cshtml";
 }
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

 <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" id="backgroundTable">
 <tr>
    <td style="width:300px">
        @Html.InlineImage("myImage.png")
    </td>
    <td style="width:300px">
        <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
            <tr>
                <td>Date</td>
                <td>@DateTime.Now.ToString("dd MMMM yyyy")
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </td>
</tr>
</table>

The email sends perfectly. But the image is not displayed in the email. I get this issue with gmail and with thunderbird. Unfortunately I do not have outlook to test on. When googling i found the following

#38 Inline images are not displayed in Thunderbird

But i am not sure where to send the content type for the email. Please any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I used the MVC Mailer instead of the ActionMailer. Now the images works fine.

But now i can’t sent the email unless i use the following SMTP Settings, my normal settings does not work

<mailSettings >
  <smtp deliveryMethod="Network" from="[e-mail]">
    <network enableSsl="true" host="mail.mySMTP.com" port="25"  defaultCredentials="true" />
  </smtp>
</mailSettings>

Does not work, but when using the following it works

<mailSettings >
  <smtp deliveryMethod="Network" from="[e-mail]">
      network enableSsl="true" host="smtp.gmail.com" port="587" userName="[e-mail]" password="mypassword"/>
  </smtp>
</mailSettings>