Send an image in an email with Grails

email, grails, image

Solution

You have to do three things

- Declare mail as multipart

- Attach your image as inline image

- Reference you inline image from your mail template

According to this mailing list thread it should work like this:

sendMail{
    multipart true
    to "[hidden email]"
    subject "Subject goes here"
    html  g.render( template: '/emails/mailTemplate')
    inline 'springsourceInlineImage', 'image/jpg', new File('./web-app/images/springsource.png')
}

In your template you could refer the image like this

<img src="cid:springsourceInlineImage" />

Hope that helps.

Problem

I am using the Grails mail plugin to send emails and I want to send images in the body of the email, not as attachment. What I want is for images to be shown in the email body itself, as in newsletters. I tried: ``` img style="display:block; height:100px; width:100; " alt="candle" src="http://www.xyz.com//Candle_4.jpg"> ``` but it is being displayed as-is. I also tried using the wikimedia format: ``` [[:File:Example.jpg]]<br/> [[Special:FilePath/Example.jpg]] ``` but again, both seem to link to external. What am I doing wrong? This is the email template I am using: ``` <img src="cid:springsourceInlineImage" /> Dear [username],<br/> Thank you for shopping with us.<br/> You have placed a new order with following details.<br/> [details]<br/> Happy shopping! ``` But, if I want to put 10 images in my template, how would I do that?

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