Thanks for the information though.
It’s a german company. Be glad you are offered e-mails at all. The official german communication medium to this day is FAX.
because it works, even in a crowdstrike
edit: typo
Did the fax go down from CrowdStrike? No. The superior communication medium!
My HR told me I could no longer email bills, but instead had to give them the original paper. I’m afraid somebody there will have a heart attack when I tell them that that PDF file is the original.
Fax? I ain’t using that modern bullshit. I will be writing letters, just like in the good ol’ days.
hehe, FAX sounds like TCP ACK but waaay more rude.
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉
Looks like someone didn’t set up their MIME types right. I get it, though, email is a terrible protocol to work with if you’re trying to do anymore more complicated than sending a plaintext message.
At least they didn’t hit you with one of those winmail.dat files!
Emails are surprisingly hard to format, actually. If you want to use modern HTML, anyway.
No it’s not. Its just hard if they need to work in Outlook, which uses a Word Processor instead of an HTML rendering engine like any other sane email client.
It’s wonderful for you that you live in a world where people use something else than Outlook to read email at work.
I use https://mjml.io/ for HTML emails, highly recommend it if you dont want to deal with Outlook’s bullshit.
Thank you kindly for the link. I’ll have to see what this brings to the table, but it’s always nice to have options!
This one goes right to the feels. I’ve got pretty good experience with using SSR components to generate static html with components. I’m currently using dotnet and blazor where I can make email components like a button and an image as easy as that might sound.
Stupid people shouldn’t be permitted to use computers.
Is it possible to put images in an email without them showing up like this?
yeah it uses this really neat semantic rendering programming language for serving structured documents across servers
It’s a bit tricky, but anyone with at least a Masters in CompSci should be able to parse some of it enough to get the gist. Bear in mind that the “source” is abbreviated to src, and “image” similarly. The rest is coding that gives the computer instructions, you’ll also need to replace FILENAME in the code with the actual filename. It goes like this
<img src="FILENAME" />Let me know if I can explain it more clearly.
I feel like the level of snark in your reply is… High. It doesn’t make for a pleasant interaction, and it doesn’t help make lemmy a nice place to be.
So, if the image you want to put into your email is not hosted somewhere, what’s the best way to go about this, ensuring compatibility?
I don’t think it’s really directed at you and moreso about making fun of the company who didn’t put in any effort to make it show up correctly.
I’m just being a silly billy it’s not directed at you.
It’s more like “ah if only there was a simple solution that could’ve been used.”
All images are hosted somewhere, I would consider an intern fresh out of college know how to correctly add an image to an email, or at least only be told once if somehow they had never seen this before.
So, if the image you want to put into your email is not hosted somewhere, what’s the best way to go about this, ensuring compatibility?
You can base64-encode the image file. It’s super-jank, but it works, even in Outlook.
Example: https://www.base64-image.de/tutorial
You can have inline images that are only shown as part of the rendered HTML. Don’t ask me how, but you’ll find some examples in your inbox.
Let me know if I can explain it more clearly.
Multi-part MIME containing inline images is actually what you’re looking for and it’s fairly easy to implement.
Here’s an example. They handwave over the html section that actually refers to the inline images that they embed, but that’s the basic layout you need.
Its about a device with touch interface as laggy as those old ass android phones with funky fonts.
I hate every second of interaction with this smart pot.
Ikea email. You get the parts and assemble it yourself
