From: Martin Boese <boesemar@...>
Date: 2011-02-25T22:22:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Send Mail with inline images?

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:28:01 +0900
"Christoph B." <ch.blank@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I've got the following problem:
> I have got a complete html page with inline CSS and images (with
> remote urls) that I want to send as a html email.
> 
> So what I need to do is:
> 
> 1. loop through img tags, extract url
> 2. attach image, fetch cid
> 3. change img src to cid:<contentid>
> 
> Can anyone tell me what to use for this? I need something that
> returns the content id after I attach an image, so I can change it in
> the html.

I can't give you a full solution, but to inline the image you can do
this:
 
  require 'base64'

  fn = '/path/to/image.png' 
  src = "data:image/png;base64,#{Base64.encode64(File.read(fn))}"
  new_tag = "<img src='#{src}'>"

Assuming you attach an 'image/png' file.


Martin

> Thanks in advance,
> Christoph
>