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Question regarding signatures in Outlook

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by NewComputer, Jun 11, 2004.

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    I received an email today with the signature of another business. This signature I thought was great. It was two images (one logo and their contact info) and the one image linked to their home page and the second only was hotlinked to the email address. I have never been able to figure out how to get images into the outlook sigs. Any ideas.
     
    NewComputer, Jun 11, 2004 IP
  2. Smyrl

    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    You can make your own stationery for use with outlook and outlook express. The drawback is people on AOL do not receive mail looking like we send it if we are using stationery.

    If you learn of a way to put images in our signiture I will be as interested as you.

    Shannon
     
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  3. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    Can you not just do advanced edit in signature picker and add a picture in word and hyperlink it? It's all HTML in the end anyway isn't it?
     
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    Jackobo007 Peon

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    compar Peon

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    The only problem with those types of signatures is that the emails containing them are automatically screen out by many spam filters.

    I use to use a animated gif in my signature that actually appeared to write my name in a nice brushed script. I had to abandon it when people started to use spam filters because many of my messages were not getting through.
     
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    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    AOL seems to block even the most basic text links nowadays :(
     
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    NewComputer Well-Known Member

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    Aol blocks all of our emails from one server, the other one gets through. All emails have html. It may be a ip ban.
     
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    NewComputer Well-Known Member

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    The only problem I see here is that gif looks like it is from 1996. I have Office 2003 and there is nothing even close to a clipart or image icon. I did try to use the advance edit, but it never displayed the image correctly.
    I wonder if you could use an html editor to do it?
     
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    I personally block all images in all incoming emails. I know most e-mail providers offer this and many people do block them anyway- its not worth it to go through the trouble in my opinion.
     
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  11. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    Schlottke is right in being carefull with images because spammers use images as hidden 'bugs' and as soon the image is being downloaded from their server the email address is logged as being active thus triggering a flood of spam to that address.

    newcomputer, you could also ask the sender of the mail how he/she did it...
     
    T0PS3O, Jun 12, 2004 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Care to explain how an email address can be had by downloading an IMG? That one is new to me...
     
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    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    They send it to millions of 'guesses' addresses in html format. Then as a test to see which ones are live, as soon as the images get served they know with ID's which address it was. See more here: http://www.leave-me-alone.com/webbugs.htm

    So it's not so much finding out or grabbing your address, more validating it's status.
     
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    He would have no idea, a third party would have done it for him. He has too much money and not enough time to do it. Also, he isn't that tech savvy, very business savvy, not very tech savvy though.... This has really stumped me.
     
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    I too have been asked how to set this up for a client. I did find the answer here http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/et101404.htm
    It solved the issue for me.
     
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