Not really sure if there is a good solution for this. Here is my workaround: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/extending-umbraco/20810-Embed-image-in-email#comment78715

Perhaps it's related to this bug: http://umbraco.codeplex.com/workitem/27431

Jeroen

Thanks Jeroen

I was hoping that there was a config setting that I was missing. Parsing and inserting was my last option.

Thanks Jeroen

Your solution worked first go.

 It's a bit annoying having to do this though. I pasted in a url, only to have it stripped out, then having to parse the markup to put it back in again.

I'd like to elevate this issue; just started creating newsletters within Umbraco 6 (great!) only to have no way to force absolute URLs (horrible!). I appreciate Jeroen's workaround but the proper answer should be for Umbraco to honor the tiny_mce.config settings, as it does with most other .config file settings. Why does it not?

Hi Eric

A solution that I have seen used, and used myself, in respect of XSLT is to develop an xslt extension method that takes the relative path of an image and returns the fully qualified path.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Xml;
using umbraco.presentation.umbracobase;
using umbraco;
 
namespace Your.namespace
{
    [XsltExtension]
    public class xsltExtensions
    {
        [RestExtensionMethod]
        public static string GetAbsoluteUrl(string relativePath)
        {
            return "http://" + HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Authority + relativePath;
        }
    }
}

I apprecaite the above may not be an aboslutely suitable solution for V6 but thought it might provide food for thought for you.

Cheers

Nigel

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