Email Automation with Embedded Images

This workflow is ideal for:

• Digital Marketers: Who want to send visually appealing emails with embedded images to engage their audience.
• Business Owners: Looking to automate email communication with clients while ensuring a professional presentation.
• Developers: Who need to integrate email functionalities into their applications without using complex email libraries.
• Small Teams: That require a straightforward solution for sending reports or updates via email with images and HTML formatting.

This workflow addresses the challenge of sending emails with embedded images in a simple and automated manner. It allows users to:

• Send professional emails that include images without needing to host them externally.
• Automate the email sending process, reducing manual effort and potential errors.
• Integrate image retrieval from the internet easily, ensuring that the content is dynamic and visually appealing.

1. Manual Trigger: The workflow starts when the user clicks the 'Test workflow' button.
2. Message Settings: The workflow defines the email parameters, including the sender, recipient, subject, and HTML body content with an embedded image reference.
3. Get Image: An HTTP request fetches an image from a specified URL.
4. Convert Image to Base64: The fetched image is converted to a base64 format, making it suitable for embedding in the email.
5. Compose Message: The email content is composed, including the base64-encoded image.
6. Send Message: Finally, the composed email is sent using the Gmail API, ensuring that the image is properly embedded and displayed in the recipient's inbox.