Sending Outlook Email with embedded image using VBS

Question

I am currently using the following VBS script to send an email and it works fine, however the image is sent as an attachment. I would instead like to embed the image into the email. I understand that I must reference the attachment in the HTML body of the email but I am struggling to do this.

Any suggestions?

Dim ToAddress
Dim FromAddress
Dim MessageSubject
Dim MyTime
Dim MessageBody
Dim MessageAttachment
Dim ol, ns, newMail
MyTime = Now

ToAddress = "[email protected]"
MessageSubject = "Auto Stats " & MyTime
MessageBody = "Stats Attached" & vbCrLf & "Produced at " & MyTime
MessageAttachment = "P:\stats.png"
Set ol = WScript.CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set ns = ol.getNamespace("MAPI")
Set newMail = ol.CreateItem(olMailItem)
newMail.Subject = MessageSubject
newMail.Body = MessageBody
newMail.RecipIents.Add(ToAddress)
newMail.Attachments.Add(MessageAttachment)
newMail.Send

Answer 1

use the code below

Const PR_ATTACH_MIME_TAG = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x370E001E"
Const PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001E"
Const PR_ATTACHMENT_HIDDEN = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x7FFE000B"


Sub testing2()
Dim ToAddress
Dim FromAddress
Dim MessageSubject
Dim MyTime
Dim MessageBody
Dim MessageAttachment
Dim ol, ns, newMail
Dim realAttachment
MyTime = Now

ToAddress = "[email protected]"
MessageSubject = "Auto Stats " & MyTime
MessageBody = "Stats Attached" & vbCrLf & "Produced at " & MyTime
MessageAttachment = "C:\Users\Public\Pictures\Sample Pictures\Penguins.jpg"
Set ns = Outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set newMail = Outlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
newMail.Subject = MessageSubject
newMail.Body = MessageBody
newMail.Recipients.Add (ToAddress)
Set realAttachment = newMail.Attachments.Add(MessageAttachment)
Set oPA = realAttachment.PropertyAccessor
oPA.SetProperty PR_ATTACH_MIME_TAG, "image/jpeg"
oPA.SetProperty PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID, "myident" 'change myident for another other image
newMail.HTMLBody = newMail.HTMLBody & "<IMG align=baseline border=0 hspace=0 src=cid:myident>" 'need to match the "myident" above
newMail.Send
End Sub

Hope it helps