"Link images only" is not working if the file exists as-is

The "Link images only" option allows you to disable embedding of images site-wide, so the images will be inserted in the message with an absolute path. I have just tested it, and it seems to work.

Maybe you had the same problem I had: I left "Mail Mime" enabled (don't mix up "Mime Mail" with "Mail Mime")! After I disabled it images were added no more.

Same problem. I add some image with absolute path in mimemail-message.tpl.php.

Look like that:

<?php
//mimemail-message.tpl.php
$path = drupal_get_path('theme', 'my_theme');
?>
<img alt="" height="192px" width="640px" src="<?php print $path; ?>/img/newsletter_footer.png" />

Those images are attached in the message as files making the mail heavy...

Modules:
Simplenews (simplenews) 7.x-1.0-rc1
Mail System 7.x-2.34
Mime Mail (mimemail) 7.x-1.0-alpha1+1 1-dev

If the file exists on the server as-is, _mimemail_url will be skipped, which would check if the image can be embedded.

Though I am attaching a patch, this needs to be postponed because this part of the code will be modified soon.

the patch #4 works for me. Thanks

still postponed?

Committed to the development snapshot.