How to add an UIImage to mail composer.

rkbang · 10-02-2009, 09:24 AM

Hello all,

I am using mail composer available in 3.0 onwards. I want to insert an image (UIImage* ) in the composer. please note I dont want to attach it, I want to insert the image which I am getting from the database. Is there any tutorial or efficient method to do this.

**MarkC** · 10-02-2009, 04:30 PM

Plenty of info online, I would tell you but I am drunk at a wedding. Google plus this site have the answer you need

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ieasyproductions · 10-03-2009, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkbang

Hello all,

I am using mail composer available in 3.0 onwards. I want to insert an image (UIImage* ) in the composer. please note I dont want to attach it, I want to insert the image which I am getting from the database. Is there any tutorial or efficient method to do this.

I don't think there is a difference between inserting it and attaching it. When you attach an image I am pretty sure it puts it into the actual email. Not sure though

Bertrand21 · 10-03-2009, 02:37 PM

It puts the image in the email body

rkbang · 10-06-2009, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bertrand21

It puts the image in the email body

It does put the image but at the end of the email.

I want to use HTML to format the place of image. Like I want to send a list of image along with the names infront of the images.

saidev · 10-06-2009, 11:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkbang

It does put the image but at the end of the email.

I want to use HTML to format the place of image. Like I want to send a list of image along with the names infront of the images.

I actually wrote some code to do that awhile back, this is before 3.0 so there might be new enhancement I don't know about with the mail composer. But I believe the new mail composer new major feature was the attachment which you don't want.

Basically, you convert your image to base64 (the base64 attached below have to be shorten cause of the message length limit, so it's not a valid image) string and embed in the image tag. I remember I've stop working on this is because the embedded image(s) are only viewable from iPhone to another iPhone, I remember testing it with Gmail, our work Outlook client with no luck display the image, when I view source the data is there. So I don't think is the so much of a spam filter issue but email clients are just smarter. While I was research this, I actually found that this is how many spammers to blast out emails with image only info so it by passes the spam filter. Damn spammers, I was going to use it for good cause but since it was pretty much useless when I found out that most mail client won't display the image. For what it's worth, here is the code.

Code:

NSString *eMailBody = @"<html>Just convert your image file to base64 to embed into the email<img src="data:image/gif;base64,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"></html>";
	NSString *encodedBody = [eMailBody stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
	NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"mailto:someone@someplace.com?subject=ImageTest&body=%@", encodedBody];
	NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:urlString];
	[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];

AmitSrivastava · 06-14-2010, 12:52 AM

[quote=rkbang;130146]Hello all,

I am using mail composer available in 3.0 onwards. I want to attach an image to mail composer ,,,i dere ny one to let me know ..wats the complete process(till now i hav converted it to bnary first).....now dnt no wat to do