RE: Graphics in an Email

Riaan H — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:49:28 GMT

Thanks C, I did expect at least svg compatibility. But I did not know about the cid possibility. I will investigate....

RE: Graphics in an Email

Riaan H — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:46:34 GMT

Thanks Angela, I had inline in mind. I will investigate the base64 option, but the blocking of images is something to take note off.

RE: Graphics in an Email

cogres — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:03:50 GMT

Hi Riaan,

I don't think it is possible to include attachments in the Aras mail templates, unfortunately.
So you would have to send the Email form a server method using, for example, the MailMessage, Attachment and SmtpClient classes in System.Net.Mail.
If you had hoped to simply include the svg in the HTML (a reasonable hope), that is not widely supported. So you would have to add the image as an attachment to the email and then reference that attachment in the HTML using its content ID (cid). Here's an example of what such an Aras method could look like (obviously the settings would have to be adjusted for your setup, SMTP server and security requirements):

const string toEmailAddress = "a.bc@abc.com"; const string fromEmailAddress = "x.yz@xyz.com"; const string contentId = "myImageId"; var message = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage(fromEmailAddress, toEmailAddress) { Subject = "An Email Subject", Body = $"<html><body>This is an <img src=\"cid:{contentId}\" /> embedded image.</body></html>", IsBodyHtml = true }; var attachment = new System.Net.Mail.Attachment(@"PathToSomeFolderOnServerWithSomeImage\SomeImage.jpg") { ContentId = contentId }; message.Attachments.Add(attachment); var client = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient { Host = "smtp.server.com", Port = 123, UseDefaultCredentials = true, EnableSsl = true, Credentials = new NetworkCredential("x.yz@xyz.com", "passwordForThatUser") }; client.Send(message); return this;

Hope this helps,

RE: Graphics in an Email

AngelaIp — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 07:47:40 GMT

Do you want to add the picture as attachment or as inline image? For inline images you could convert your image to a base64 string that you then can add as regular email content. But in reality these images will often be blocked by email programs.