We create html with an image like <img src="http://www.test.com/retrieve.do?img=png&inline=y"> that needs authentication to get the image from application.

We send this html content as an email and if the content is sent as email inline i.e email body, the image is not getting displayed in outlook.

We are able to see the image while opening the htnl content in browser provided we logged in to the application.

I think we need some key to be generated by application and added into the image url so that application can authenticate using the key and outlook should be able diaplay the images by then...

Please provide your inputs.. Any help on this much appreciated...

Sending images through email can be tricky. Outlook does not have a method to authenticate for images. Not aware of any HTML code or mark up that prompts for this to happen.

Is this something that can be accomplished by using an ASP?

Hope this helps.