Include an HTML img tag inside a mailto: URL on an iPhone

Question

I'm trying to include an image in an email, which is being sent using a mailto: URL in an iPhone app. The image shows up on the sender's mail app, but after being sent, the tag seems to be stripped out entirely. Here's a snippet, which has been escaped by hand:

[mailUrl appendString:@"&body=%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//stackoverflow.com/content/img/stackoverflow-logo.png%22%20/%3E"];

Short of using my own SMTP server, or sending them as attachments, is there any way to embed images in an email on the iPhone?

Answer 1

No there is no way to do it using the iPhone SDK up till version 2.2.1.

There is a way to do it with the 3.0 SDK but it is under NDA so I cannot discuss it here :(

Answer 2

http://webbuilders.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/url-must-be-url-encoded-inside-a-nsstring-in-objective-c/

This new account won't allow me to post my answer. I include info here

Answer 3

Luke, probably not useful to you anymore, but in researching this topic someone mentioned that wrapping the image with <b></b> prevents the iphone mail app from stripping the img tag. I tried it and it works for me.