show image in email from base64String in html control

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Hi All,

I am sending an email to members from C# console application.

I want to show images in email. I am having the images in Base64String format.
I tryed with following code but it is not working. The image is not displaying in email-

HTML

image.src="data:image/jpeg;base64,"+imgData;

How to make it work?

Please suggest.

Thanks in advance for your suggessions.

--Avinash

Posted 13-Dec-12 16:34pm

Avinash6474

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Dec-12 23:35pm

Good question, a 5. This is not quite apparent but important e-mail feature.
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-12-13T17:33:00

Solution 1

You need to use multipart e-mail and the special URI scheme "cid:". For further detail, please see my past answer:
Sending HTML attachment with images[^].

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme[^].

—SA

Posted 13-Dec-12 17:33pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 13-Dec-12 17:34pm

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