Images in email

[John Walker]

Hi,

I'm new to markdown but like the notion of 'Markdown Here' as being a way to format email. I'd like to use it to send email with images preferably by attaching them and then inserting the image link referring to the attached image. I can't work out how to do that. Is there a way to do this or to embed the images? Any ideas?  BTW I don't have a website/webserver to serve images and these are not images I want on public websites (No. They are not 'those' type of images. They are research data as plots in png files that I don't want released publicly yet).

John Walker

[John Walker]

OK made a little progress by clicking on unresolved, typed-in link in thunderbird. It brings up a dialogue that lets me select a file for the image link and let's me say that the file should be attached. However if I click on the button to derender the page and then click again to rerender it, then the image is no longer there and I have to do the process all over again

John

[Philip Davis]

Take a look at MailMate for the Mac. I plays well with Markdown and can insert links to images from your computer.

[Adam Pritchard]

You can embed images in Thunderbird (and Gmail) by dragging-and-dropping or by using the insert-image formatting button. Here's a screencast of it:

I didn't have the problem you mention about losing the image when derendering (in the screencast I derender). What version of Thunderbird are you using? (I tested in 24.4.)

Adam

On Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:57:37 PM UTC-4, John Walker wrote:

[Jason Duquette]

I have a similar request.  We create a markdown file with a link to a local image file (e.g. c:/image.jpg) and that image is not loaded into the rendered email.  (for us image is supposed to be in a table cell).  The only solution I currently see is manually inserting the image, which becomes a nuisance when we may want to include several images.  Is there an alternative more streamlined approach?

Jason