Using Inline Images With Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail

by on May 25, 2010 | 1 comment

There was a time when Hotmail and Y! Mail allowed the use of inline images when composing an e-mail, but then took away that functionality for whatever reasons. Gmail to the best of my knowledge has never had a native way of using inline images when composing a new message.

Using a little copy/paste magic, you can insert inline images when composing a new mail from Gmail, Y! Mail or Hotmail. All it requires is to use the “Rich Text” editing method and a quick copy/paste.

See video below for details on how to do it.

Note: Yes, this also does work with e-mail signatures with Hotmail and Y! Mail, but not Gmail because Gmail use the rich text editor for signature composition.

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  • Aaron Fournier

    That’s great you can just copy and paste the image right into your email. What I’ve done normally the few times I wanted to put an image in an email was to add it in using HTML, haha.

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