in reply to Picture this

I've just read the article that you describe and it encourages some very bad practices.

HTML mail should only ever be sent as one part of a multipart MIME message. Another part should have the same message in text/plain. Not everyone will have a mail client which handles HTML emails and a correctly formatted MIME message gives them the chance to read your mail too.

By all means, send HTML mail if you have to, but use the MIME-Tools bundle of modules from CPAN to format it.

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RE: RE: Picture this
by Jonathan (Curate) on Nov 09, 2000 at 18:46 UTC
    Thanks for the advice davorg These mails are on a sub-section of our intranet where everyone has the same mail client installed. I would like to use Mail::Sender but getting admin to install modules can take ages :-(
    Trimbach kindly suggested putting the full URL of the image in the tag. This doesn't work for me as the server requires http authorisation. Pity.

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      I strongly advise against this, but it is possible to include the username and password for authentication in the url. Just write the url like an ftp url: 
      http://username:password@intranet.company.com/report.html

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