Mandrill base64 inline image in format of image/svg+xml is not visible in email?

Question

When I send emails using Mandrill with images that are encoded in image/svg+xml format them are not visible in email.

`

"images": [{

"type": "image/xml+svg",

"name": "S1",

"content":PHN2ZyB4bWxuczp4bGluaz0iaHR0cDovL3d3......

}]

` Images are displayed well on web-page if I render them as

 <img src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2Z......> 

Also Mandrill works fine and shows images if I use image/png and use base64 encoded string for image

Answer 1

SVG images in emails are problematic. Your code is good but email clients just do not display SVG images (eg iPhone native email client does but GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo, ... don't). See this online test which shows which email clients do/don't display SVG images: http://conference.createsend.com/screens/r/06A83737A07C505E?_ga=1.195278186.717901520.1441198800