How can I compose a email in Gmail, and control if inline images are true attachments, or links?
A link ends up creating a small email with each image actually coming from Google's servers:
An attachment converts the image to text and includes it, via the MIME protocol, in the actual email.
Sometimes it makes no difference.
Sometimes it makes a big difference. For example if the recipient is offline at the time of reading, or behind a firewall that blocks images, or if the google image links go bad.
Is there a way to control this behavior?It's easy to detect, via looking at the raw source of the email,or by hovering over the inline image (if it's already on Google's servers, it won'tgive you the option to add it).Control?