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Unanswered Soultion to track internal email using Outlook

  • Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:02 AM
     
     
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    We have a requirement to track delivery and access of email sent to internal users sent by using Outtlook. One solution could be
    1. Inclulde a image on sender end which will be served by backend server
    2. Recipient end on NewMail or ItemOpen event; image will get loaded and generates a event to record same

    However first hurdle is outlook seems to substitiue tthe image src from something like
    src="http://..."

    src: cid:image.gif@01

    Any help would be highly aprpeciated

    kanagar

     

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  • Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:21 AM
     
     
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    How do you set the HTML body? I have not seen Outlook replace references to external images with the actuial embedded image attachments.

    Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
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    Redemption - what the Outlook
    Object Model should have been
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  • Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:33 AM
     
     
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    Hi Dmitry

    i think outlook somestimes does it on reply action ?

     
  • Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:34 AM
     
     
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    Outlook does seems to replace image 'src' - like for example i insert image from http://myportal/content.jpg, The image src in the received mail would not contain the abouve url.

    the image src in received mail (using view source) is src=cid:image001.jpg@01CE1.5b..

    kanagar

     
  • Thursday, February 28, 2013 9:16 PM
     
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    I cannot reproduce this behavior. The following script works just fine for me.

    set Msg = Application.CreateItem(0)
Msg.Subject = "image test"
Msg.To = "dmitry@dimastr.com"
Msg.HTMLBody = "<html><body>" & _
                   "<b><a href=""http://www.dimastr.com/redemption"">Link</a></b><br>" & _
                   "<img width=""100px"" height=""103px"" src=""http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/redemption_small_logo.png"" style=""border-width:0px"">" & _
                   "</body></html>"
Msg.Send

    Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
    http://www.dimastr.com/redemption
    Redemption - what the Outlook
    Object Model should have been
    Version 5.4 is now available!


     
  • Wednesday, March 06, 2013 3:51 AM
     
     
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    We are not inserting picture using any plug-in. We simply do Insert->Picture and type url like http://........./content.jpg. in filename dialog box. I expect to see tag like <img src='http://...../content.jpg'> in trhe view source but it is replaced with embeded image like <img src=cid:image001.jpg@2298804.4564FJFJ>

    kanagar

     
  • Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:16 AM
     
     
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    insert button is actually a drop Down - try selecting option to link to file, instead of clicking just 'insert'
     
  • Wednesday, March 06, 2013 9:23 AM
     
     
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    This would insert a hyperlink in the message body?

    kanagar

     
  • Wednesday, March 06, 2013 9:36 AM
     
     
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    try and tell us