Brian,
How do they generate the images?  Maybe the solution is there so the images are smaller to begin with.  For example, if they are from a digital cam=era, ask to see it and change the storage resolution.  Or maybe in the way they move the images to the computer they could use a script that does the resize as part of moving the image to computer storage.  Then the guy doing the emails has no change to how he works.  Or how about setting up a cron job that resizes the photos before he uses them?


On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:30 AM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:
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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