I'm using MIME::Lite to attach an image to an email and I want HTML in the email to display that image. There is an example of this in the MIME::Lite perldoc but unfortunatly does not seem to be working with KMail or Outlook. (haven't tried anything else). Here's a sample of the offending code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
use MIME::Lite;

#Address removed to protect the innocent 
my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(  To  =>'someone@somewhere.com',
                            Subject =>  'TEST',
                            Type    =>  'multipart/related'
                        );
$msg->attach(   Type=>'text/html',
                Data=>qq{<body>The image: <img src="cid:calbanner2.gif
+"></body>}
            );
$msg->attach(   Type=>'image/gif',
                Id=>'calbanner2.gif',
                Path=>'calbanner2.gif',
                Filename=>'calbanner2.gif'
            );
$msg->send();
 
print "Done\n";
exit;

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I don't really know what the 'cid:' in the img src tag is but i've tried with and without it but still no luck.

Thanks in advance

In reply to How do I get an attached image to show up in HTML? by cfreak

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