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Asked: 2026-05-15T21:26:28+00:00

I am using MFMailComposeViewController class to send out formatted HTML email from my iPhone

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I am using MFMailComposeViewController class to send out formatted HTML email from my iPhone app. I need to include an image in the email and I added am IMG tag to my emailbody

- (IBAction)shareWithOther
{
    MFMailComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
    picker.mailComposeDelegate = self;

    [picker setSubject:@"My Message Subject"];

    NSString *emailBody = @"<h3>Some and follow by an image</h3><img src=\"SG10002_1.jpg\"/>and then more text.";
    [picker setMessageBody:emailBody isHTML:YES];

    [self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
    [picker release];
}

the image file, “SG10002_1.jpg” was added to my Resource Folder, but the image didn’t show up in the message body (only displayed as [?]).
Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong like if the path of the image is wrong or is there a better way to do this?

Thanks a lot.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I strongly believe (from your question) that your image SG10002_1.jpg is located in main bundle.
    If it is so, then below code should work for you. It’s a complete hack from this question.

    - (void)createEmail {
//Create a string with HTML formatting for the email body
    NSMutableString *emailBody = [[[NSMutableString alloc] initWithString:@"<html><body>"] retain];
 //Add some text to it however you want
    [emailBody appendString:@"<p>Some email body text can go here</p>"];
 //Pick an image to insert
 //This example would come from the main bundle, but your source can be elsewhere
    UIImage *emailImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"myImageName.png"];
 //Convert the image into data
    NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithData:UIImagePNGRepresentation(emailImage)];
 //Create a base64 string representation of the data using NSData+Base64
    NSString *base64String = [imageData base64EncodedString];
 //Add the encoded string to the emailBody string
 //Don't forget the "<b>" tags are required, the "<p>" tags are optional
    [emailBody appendString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<p><b><img src='data:image/png;base64,%@'></b></p>",base64String]];
 //You could repeat here with more text or images, otherwise
 //close the HTML formatting
    [emailBody appendString:@"</body></html>"];
    NSLog(@"%@",emailBody);

 //Create the mail composer window
    MFMailComposeViewController *emailDialog = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
    emailDialog.mailComposeDelegate = self;
    [emailDialog setSubject:@"My Inline Image Document"];
    [emailDialog setMessageBody:emailBody isHTML:YES];

    [self presentModalViewController:emailDialog animated:YES];
    [emailDialog release];
    [emailBody release];
}
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