Re: Help! Background image not displaying...

On 8 Feb, 23:11, ecuisinet... (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

have some HTML that is being sent via email. It displays fine in
yahoo mail but not in gmail or hotmail.

You have your images as absolute URLs to a web server, rather than
embedding them into your email. Many / most webmail services and even
email clients these days will block such images, as they're a feature
mostly used by spammers.

If you send spam to an email address that may or may not be live, then
you can embed an image link in it with an identifier for that address
coded into the URL. The target downloads the image, the spammer checks
their logs and they've confirmed that your address is live. Bad news
for the target!

I suggest embedding the images into the email instead. If they're huge
PDFs or similar that are just too big for this, then show them as
obvious links instead and let the users choose to click on them.