Show an image when using cfmail?

Question

I'm trying to show an image when sending an email. Sending the email works, but in the image it shows blank. I know the 'src' URL is correct because I have it in other places and it shows. How can I get it to work when sending an email?

<CFMAIL TO="email"
        FROM="email"
        SUBJECT="test"
        TYPE="HTML">
        <table>
        <tr><img src="icon_star.gif" alt="star" width="10" height="10">
            <td valign="top" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">   <strong>Rising Star Award: #risingstar#</strong></font></td>
            <td valign="top" ><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>#risingstar_ave#</strong></font></td>
        </tr>
        ....more code ...

You may want to look at this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4312687/how-to-embed-images-in-email — James A Mohler, Jun 16 '14 at 23:43

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 16 '14 at 21:15

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Your image needs to be available via a full url.

<img src="http://www.MyDomain.com/images/icon_star.gif" 
    alt="star" 
    width="10" 
    height="10">

answered Jun 16 '14 at 21:15

Evik James

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 16 '14 at 21:14

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you'll need an absolute path to the file so it can find it when the person opens their email.

example:

<img src="http://monkeysite.com/icon_star.gif" alt="star" width="10" height="10">

answered Jun 16 '14 at 21:14

Frank Tudor

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Frank, I think I beat your answer by 10 seconds. – Evik James Jun 17 '14 at 00:52
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You came in at 21:15:30 mine...21:14:32 (58 second ahead of you), but who's counting. Matt actually had 'an answer' before either of us' minus the example (as a comment). Either way I am ok with all this...Sometimes you get that sweet green check mark next your answer and sometimes you don't :) – Frank Tudor Jun 17 '14 at 01:48

Show an image when using cfmail?

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