Getting Mr. banana to e-mail

[againsttheflow]

1- I have sitting on my desktop as a gif animation
2- I'd like to have him in the body of an e-mail
3- uploaded to photobucket here
4- using the Image link codes at the right got a simple hyperlink in but failed at inserting him in the body
5- using an attachment (in yahoo) was also a dead-end
6-

 

[kcwong]

Which email client are you using?

To have a image link working, you must set your email to HTML format instead of text (or others), and use a proper HTML IMG tag instead of forum IMG tag, i.e.:

<img src="http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg125/Andru_pics/?action=view&current=banana.gif">

 

[Perfection]

Please don't format your emails in such a way. It's annoying.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Even if you format it with HTML, some people may have their clients set to show it in text mode or are only able to recieve text mode. In which case, it just looks like crap.

 

[againsttheflow]

Which email client are you using?

(in yahoo)

To have a image link working, you must set your email to HTML format instead of text (or others), and use a proper HTML IMG tag instead of forum IMG tag, i.e.:

<img src="http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg125/Andru_pics/?action=view&current=banana.gif">

So is this the only way? I feel like I'm missing something, in Office Outlook I could insert pictures and I would imagine gif animations too (?). Is there no way to insert with say yahoo, gmail, or hotmail? The receiving client would be yahoo in this case...

 

[kcwong]

HTML is the only way, and as Perfection said, the recipient's client might not support it (though that's rare these days), or the recipient disabled loading images from the web (for bandwidth or security reasons).

 

[againsttheflow]

Ok, please 'scuse the ignorance, one turns on the HTML format how?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

http://email.about.com/cs/yahoomailtips/qt/et010204.htm

 

[againsttheflow]

Unfortunately, the functionality described below is not currently available at Yahoo! Mail.

Too bad, thanks for trying though.

 

[Padma]

The reason you can easily do it in MS Office/Outlook is because they turn on html-formatting by default.

(Which is part of why it is such an insecure mail program. )

 

[kcwong]

I don't see what harm HTML can do...

I think JavaScript and ActiveX controls inside emails run under the same security settings you have for the internet zone.

 

[Padma]

For Outlook to render the HTML, it uses the IE engine ... so of course, it is susceptible to all the same grief that IE is: javascript / ActiveX / etc.

It is how much email-malware is spread.

 

[Souron]

It is possible to hotlink your attachments in your email instead of linking remote images. I don't know exactly how it is done, though.