Replace image attachments with resized versions

joe at actionline.com joe at actionline.com
Fri Sep 6 11:30:54 MST 2013


Bob's suggestion sounds like a good part of the solution.

I use the code below (most of which I learned from
PLUG friends) to bulk resize images before uploading
them and that makes images load faster.

# mkall1000 - resize all photos to 1000 pixel width

mkdir 1000
find -type f -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -r -0 -ixxx convert -resize 1000
-quality 80% xxx ./1000/xxx

BTW: I have never understood why people keep and use 5-meg images (or
even 1-meg images) when 200-K images look the same on 99% of monitors.


=== Bob Elzer wrote: ===
> What about having them send it as HTML with image links and storing the
> images on a server, then they could track how many people are actually
> reading them, and that would cut down on the size.

=== On Sep 6, 2013 9:13 AM, "Brian Cluff" wrote: ===
>> I've got a customer that sends out newsletters with images ...
>> So, to keep them from sending out thousands of 5+ meg emails a
>> couple of times a month, I would like to put a filter in ...
>>
>> Does anyone know of something out there that can do what I need?




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