Sending image in mail

Question

Hi,
I have a requirement to send image in mail.
I got a code from a post which is as following :
import javax.mail.* ;
import javax.mail.internet.* ;
import java.util.Properties;
class SimpleMail1 {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
        System.out.println("Sending mail...");
        Properties props = new Properties();
        props.setProperty("mail.transport.protocol", "smtp");
        props.setProperty("mail.host", "smtp.mymailserver.com");
        props.setProperty("mail.user", "myuser");
        props.setProperty("mail.password", "mypwd");
Session mailSession = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
        mailSession.setDebug(true);
        Transport transport = mailSession.getTransport();
MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(mailSession);
        message.setSubject("HTML  mail with images");
// write sender's and recpient's email address
   message.setContent
          (" img src=image_path" + "html/text");;    
        transport.connect();
        transport.sendMessage(message,
            message.getRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO));
        transport.close();
Here, the image is being taken from an internet link whereas I am working on Linux server.
If I place a file on some location on the server, how to get the file from this location in this code?
Regards,
Nikhil

Answer 1

Cary,
I got your email overnight.
The 5 attachments are full size JPEG files, and the overall size of the message is 4.5 MB. Three of them have been compressed more than the other two, which you can see looking at the file sizes shown in the attached screenshot I sent back to you, but all of them decompress into full size photos of good size.
You may have muddied the water slightly, by Forwarding rather than sending a new message as you did originally. That can easily be checked if you open the message as originally sent, click on Message in the menubar and choose Send Again -- then change the To address to mine.
However, I think there is another issue causing the message to be sent in Rich Text Format, which causes some conversion of text to HTML, which then is problematic to some email clients some recipients use on Windows computers, notably Outlook and Outlook Express. Specifically, the file name of each photo appearing beneath and between each attachment can cause this, as could multiple fonts (but you did have that). To stop the file name printing, which is coming from iPhoto's preparation of the message, change the selection in the Email dialogue in iPhoto to deselect Include Title and Include Comments.
Then be sure to send all such messages in Plain Text, and be sure to use Windows Friendly if not already.
Ernie