sendmail.m and HTML emails

I often use sendmail.m using gmail on win7 to send emails to myself when simulations have finished running etc.

sendmail.m allows for attachements and also allows for text.

does anyone know if sendmail.m (or anything else for that matter) can support imbedded images as per the HTML option of MS Outlook?

ie when a user recieves an email in outlook, they do not have to open a jpeg attachment, but the image is in the body of the text.

thanks

[Matlab2010]

Thank you for contacting technical support with the SR-number "1-LEW6ER" and topic "sendmail.com".

The ability to send embedded images in e-mails is not available in MATLAB.

If you are sending from a Windows computer with Outlook installed, one possible workaround is to use Outlook from within MATLAB. On Windows systems, you can send email directly through Outlook by accessing the COM server with actxserver. For more information, please refer to the following link:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-RTY6J/index.html?solution=1-RTY6J

Microsoft's Outlook may provide functionality for embedding images through its COM interface.

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[Matlab2010]

function test_SENDMAIL_OUTLOOK()

recipients = '[e-mail]';

emailSubject = 'Test subject';

textBody = 'Test message including an image';
imageBody1 = '

<<D---folder--Personal--blah.jpg>>

';
imageBody2 = '

<<D---folder--Personal--blah2.jpg>>

';
mainBody = [textBody '<p>' imageBody1 '<p>' imageBody2];

attachement1 = 'D:\folder\Personal\blah.PDF';
attachement2 = 'D:\folder\Personal\blah2.PDF';

attachements = {attachement1 attachement2};

sendolmail(recipients,emailSubject, mainBody, attachements);

end

function sendolmail(to,subject,body,attachments)
%Sends email using MS Outlook. The format of the function is
%Similar to the SENDMAIL command.

% Create object and set parameters.
h = actxserver('outlook.Application');
mail = h.CreateItem('olMail');
mail.Subject = subject;
mail.To = to;
mail.BodyFormat = 'olFormatHTML';
mail.HTMLBody = body;

% Add attachments, if specified.
if nargin == 4
    for i = 1:length(attachments)
        mail.attachments.Add(attachments{i});
    end
end

% Send message and release object.
mail.Send;
h.release;

end

[Image Analyst]

Sometimes email programs (like Yahoo.com) will automatically embed attached images in the body of the message. I'm not sure if yours does or not.

[Jens Koopmann]

Cool that works really well Thanks for sharing

Answer 1

[Jan]

Do you mean something like embedding this in the HTML message:

<<data-image-gif-base64-R0lGODlhEAAOALMAAOazToeHh0tLS-7LZv-0jvb29t-n--f3--Ub--ge8WSLf-rhf-3kdbW1mxsbP--mf---yH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAQAA4AAARe8L1Ekyky-n-67QZ1hLnjM5UUde0ECwLJoExKcppV0aCcGCmTIHEIUEqjgaORCMxIC6e0Cc-n-guWw6aFjsVMkkIr7g77ZKPJjPZqIyd7sJAgVGoEGv2xsBxqNgYPj.gAwXEQA7>>