I can insert an image inline with mutt by using attach, then using ctl+d to make the image appear inline. However, it appears below my signature.

If anyone knows of a way to make the image appear above the signature, I'd be grateful for their input. (This is with mutt 1.5.21--usually sent from a Fedora 14 machine, but I haven't found the behavior to change with the platform.)

Unfortunately, it's necessary to do this at work, for a particular daily email. The workaround is to use Thunderbird for this particular email, but I'd much prefer to use mutt.

I was able to do this by manually deleting my signature while composing
the message. After attaching the image file and using ctrl-d to switch
to inline, I attached my .signature file and did the same (ctrl-d).
Viewed with Thunderbird on XP to test.

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Aha, that works. I can even make a separate signature file, where I add the -- on top. (If I just did that with my normal signature file, the -- was missing. Though the folks who get this one email wouldn't notice, it annoyed me.)

Thanks very much--I see this was your first post, and it seems a winner to me.


EDIT:
Drat, to soon. It works with some mailers, but not our web mail at work. Still, my thanks remains, at least it gave me something to work with. (Our web mail is somewhat dated, and for some reason, shows the signature as an attachment, though the image appears inline.)

I may as well add that today, when I went back to work and was able to see the results on Outlook 2003, it didn't work as expected. Though the inline image shows as inline with Thunderbird, gmail, and our company's webmail, in Outlook 2003 it shows as an attachment.

While I'd like to rant about MS' lack of adherence to standards, the reality is that in the business world, it's still a Microsoft world and even the Linux admin is expected to conform--at least where I work.

I saw this on the mutt mailing list a while ago:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/plain2html/

"The purpose of using this tool is to enable sending email messages in
HTML format using email clients (MUA) that are textual (for instance,
Mutt). When working with Mutt, all one has to do is to replace the
normal definition of Mutt's ``sendmail`` configuration variable with a
definition that calls plain2html-mail.py. That way, when a mail is
sent from Mutt, it will be modified on the fly by appending to it a
HTML part, then it will be handed over to the normal sendmail command."

Maybe it could be part of your solution? I haven't had time to play with yet myself,
but if I have any luck I'll report back.

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Y'know, I'd never seen this post, apologies for taking so long to get back to you. I'll try it tomorrow.

FOLLOWUP. I downloaded and took a look. For what I want, it seems as if it might take more effort than I'm willing to spend. However, once again, thanks for the suggestion.