[ciapug] multipart emails with images

[David Champion]

Have any of you done a PHP mailer that does multipart mime text / html 
messages, with image attachments? (That's a mouthful).

I have one working, using bits & pieces of examples from the php mail 
manual page : http://us4.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php ... but I don't 
have the images working quite right yet.

I have a plain text portion, the html message portion, and the image 
attachments. But the <img src=... tags don't work. From what I can 
gather, you're supposed to say <img src="cid:myimage.gif"> where 
myimage.gif is the name of the attached image. But that's not working 
for me.

I'm wondering if the images have to be attached with a special mime type 
in order to get them to work this way.

I'm getting around this with a kludge of putting the images on a web 
server, then using the absolute URL path in the img tags.

Any ideas on this?

-dc