Sending HTML email having problem Hotmail

Question

I am sending a HTML email with embedded images the images are appearing fine in Outlook and Yahoo, but in Hotmail the images are displaying but also showing up as attachments. Has anyone had this problem?
thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
I've had a similar problem. I'm trying to outsource my images and style sheets from our website.
I add a text part to the email also and this then shows in Hotmail. The HTML part is still ignored. My code is the following...
  private static boolean sendMessage(String[] to, String subject, String message, String from, String[] filelocation) {
    try {
      String recievers = StringWizard.arrayToText(to, ", ");
      System.err.println("Email.sendMessage() : creating a new email for " + to[0] + " from " + from + ".");
      StringBuffer msg = new StringBuffer(message);
      Properties prop = new Properties();
      prop.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
      prop.put("mail.transport.protocol", "smtp");
      prop.put("mail.smtp.host", MAIL_HOST);
      Session mail_Session=Session.getInstance(prop, null);
      InternetAddress fromAddress = new InternetAddress(from);
      InternetAddress toAddress[] = new InternetAddress[to.length];
      for(int i=0;i<to.length;i++) toAddress[i] = new InternetAddress(to);
InternetAddress[] reply = { fromAddress };
MimeMessage myMessage = new MimeMessage(mail_Session);
myMessage.setFrom(fromAddress);
myMessage.setReplyTo(reply);
for(int i=0;i<to.length;i++) myMessage.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, toAddress[i]);
myMessage.setSentDate(new java.util.Date());
myMessage.setSubject(subject);
Multipart mp = new MimeMultipart();
// add html as the first part of the email.
// add html.
boolean sendHTML = UserHelper.HTMLEmails(to[0]);
if(sendHTML) {
System.err.println("Email.sendMessage() : Rendering text/html email to " + recievers);
MimeBodyPart htmlpart = new MimeBodyPart();
htmlpart.setContent(StringWizard.stripJavascript(StringWizard.toHTML(msg.toString())), "text/html");
mp.addBodyPart(htmlpart);
// add default stuff (text).
// add text.
System.err.println("Email.sendMessage() : Rendering text email to " + recievers);
MimeBodyPart textpart = new MimeBodyPart();
textpart.setText(msg.toString());
mp.addBodyPart(textpart);
// if we are sending any files with this email add them.
boolean attached = false;
if(filelocation!=null && filelocation.length>0) {
for(int i=0;i<filelocation.length;i++) {
File attachment = new File(filelocation[i]);
if(attachment.exists() && attachment.isFile() && attachment.canRead()) {
System.err.println("Email.sendMessage() : Attaching file " + attachment.getAbsolutePath() + " to email bound for " + recievers);
MimeBodyPart attachfile = new MimeBodyPart();
FileDataSource fds = new FileDataSource(attachment);
DataHandler dh = new DataHandler(fds);
attachfile.setFileName(attachment.getName());
attachfile.setDisposition(Part.ATTACHMENT);
attachfile.setDescription("Attached File: " + attachment.getName());
attachfile.setDataHandler(dh);
mp.addBodyPart(attachfile);
attached = true;
ContentType cttext = new ContentType("text/plain", "iso-8859-1", new ParameterList());
if(attached==false && !sendHTML) myMessage = addMessageHeaders(myMessage, cttext);
myMessage.setContent(mp);
Transport tr = mail_Session.getTransport("smtp");
tr.connect(MAIL_HOST, USERNAME, PASSWORD);
int line = 1;
Enumeration enum = myMessage.getAllHeaderLines();
while(enum.hasMoreElements() && DEBUG) {
System.err.println("Email.sendMessage() : HDR" + (line < 10 ? ("0" + line) : (line + "")) + ": " + (String)enum.nextElement());
line++;
myMessage.saveChanges();
tr.sendMessage(myMessage, toAddress);
tr.close();
System.err.println("Email.sendMessage() : email sent to " + recievers);
return true;
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace(System.err);
return false;