Web forms : sending image into email not displaying in outlook?

Question

I'm sending an image through web form the image is displayed well into gmail ,yahoo etc. But i'm not able to view that image when I send it on Outlook what would be wrong please help.

Code:

//Variable mg have a html code with  'cid:uniqueId1’ calls image from function SendMail12


void birthday()
        {
            Coonection con = new Coonection();
            sql = "select es.PORTNO,es.SERVERNAME,es.EMAILID,es.PASSWORD,e.efrom,e.SerNo,e.eto,e.ecc,e.emessage,e.eflag,e.EmpID,e.FIRSTNAME,e.LASTNAME,e.DeptName,e.FromDate,e.Todate,e.Reason from EMAILSETTING es,EmailSender e";


            SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(sql, con.GetConnection());
            DataSet ds = new DataSet();
            da.Fill(ds);

            string sub = "Message";
            int portnum, n,sn;
            string servername1, passwo, account, t, ecc, mg, flage,mg2;
            sql = "select count(srno)from EmailSender";
            SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(sql, con.GetConnection());
            // dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
            n = Convert.ToInt32(cmd.ExecuteScalar());
            //while (i)
            //{
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            {
                if (ds.Tables[0].Rows.Count > 0)
                {

                    portnum = Convert.ToInt32(ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["PORTNO"].ToString());
                    servername1 = ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["SERVERNAME"].ToString();      //Table(0).Rows(0)("SmtpServerName").ToString();
                    account = ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["EMAILID"].ToString();
                    passwo = ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["PASSWORD"].ToString();
                    t = ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["eto"].ToString();
                    ecc = ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["ecc"].ToString();
                    mg2 = ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["emessage"].ToString();
                    flage = ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["eflag"].ToString();
                    sn = Convert.ToInt32(ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["SerNo"].ToString());

                    if (flage == "N" && mg2 == "Wish You a Very Happy Returns of the Day. From - Daccess Security Systems Pvt ")
                    {
                        mg = "  " +
                            "" +
                           "  " +
                           "Untitled Document  " +
                           "" +
                           "  " +
                           "  " +
                           "  " +
                           "  " +
                           "  " +
                           "
  " +
                           "" +
                           "" + "" +
                           "" +
                           "" +
                           "" + "" +
                           "" +
                           "" +
                           "" + "" +
                           "" +
                           "" +
                           "" + "" +
                           "" +
                           "" +
                           ""+
                           ""+""+"Employee ID :" + " " + ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["EmpID"].ToString() + "
Employee Name :" + " " + ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["FIRSTNAME"].ToString() + " " + ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["LASTNAME"].ToString() + "
Department :" + " " + ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["DeptName"].ToString() + "
Message :" + " " + ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["emessage"].ToString() + "
"+
                           "  " +
                           "  Please do not reply to this email." +
                           "   " +
                           ""+
                           "  " +
                           "  ";

                        if (flage == "N" && mg2 == "Wish You a Very Happy Returns of the Day. From - Daccess Security Systems Pvt ")
                        {
                            SendMail12(account, passwo, t, sub, mg, ecc, servername1, portnum);
                            sql = "Update EmailSender set eflag ='Y' where SerNo = '" + sn.ToString() + "'";
                            SqlCommand cmd4 = new SqlCommand(sql, con.GetConnection());
                            cmd4.ExecuteNonQuery();
                        }
                    }
                }
                else
                {

                    servername1 = "";
                    portnum = 0;
                    account = "";
                    passwo = "";
                    MessageBox.Show("Email Setting Is Not Stored");
                }
            }
        }

// Send mail function
public static bool SendMail12(string gMailAccount, string password, string to, string subject, string message, string cc, string server, int port)
      {
          try
          {


              NetworkCredential loginInfo = new NetworkCredential(gMailAccount, password);
              MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
              msg.From = new MailAddress(gMailAccount);
              msg.To.Add(new MailAddress(to));

              string[] s;
              s = cc.Split(';');

              for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++)
              {
                  msg.CC.Add(new MailAddress(s[i].ToString()));
              }

              msg.Subject = subject;
              msg.Body = message;
              msg.IsBodyHtml = true;

              SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
              client.Host = server;
              client.Port = port;
              client.Timeout = 100000;
              client.EnableSsl = true;
              client.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
              client.Credentials = loginInfo;
              string palinBody = "Plain text content, viewable by those clients that don't support html";
              AlternateView plainView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(palinBody, null, "text/plain");
              string htmlBody = message;
              AlternateView htmlView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(htmlBody, null, "text/html");
              //create the AlternateView for embedded image 
              AlternateView imageView = new AlternateView("D:\Aniket Work\New Folder Update\EmailSender\EmailSender\images\Daccess-logo.gif", MediaTypeNames.Image.Gif);
              imageView.ContentId = "uniqueId";
              imageView.TransferEncoding = TransferEncoding.Base64;

              AlternateView imageView1 = new AlternateView("D:\Aniket Work\New Folder Update\EmailSender\EmailSender\images\birthday1images.jpg", MediaTypeNames.Image.Jpeg);
              imageView1.ContentId = "uniqueId1";
              imageView1.TransferEncoding = TransferEncoding.Base64;
              //add the views 
              msg.AlternateViews.Add(plainView);
              msg.AlternateViews.Add(htmlView);
              msg.AlternateViews.Add(imageView);
              msg.AlternateViews.Add(imageView1);

              client.Send(msg);

              return true;
          }
          catch (Exception e)
          {
              return false;
          }
      }

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ajay_whiz · Accepted Answer

You should be giving absolute paths to your resources

e.g.

in above code, your body background should be something like

same thing applies to your image tag or you can have inline content disposition

EDIT

Do you see something like this when you view the mail?

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Web forms : sending image into email not displaying in outlook?

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