Including Graphics and Hyperlinks in an iOS Mac Mail Signature: Seems to Be Impossible. Is it?...

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Including Graphics and Hyperlinks in an iOS Mac Mail Signature: Seems to Be Impossible. Is it?...

At this point I have read no less than 30 threads on how to do this. I have spent in excess of 10 hours trying to figure this out. What is easily achievable in Microsoft Outlook, seems to be virtually impossible in Mac iOS Mail.

The CEO of my company has asked me to make the email signatures coming out of our iPhones in Mac Mail for iOS look the same as the emails sent from our laptops and desktop machines.

Every fixed that I have read about seems to simply not work.

The "solution" where are you shake your phone to undo the iPhone override of the HTML formatting that you try to put into the signature preferences simply does not work. The images you try to place just disappear and are replaced by empty boxes.

In this day and age, I find it incomprehensible that it would be this difficult to achieve this simple task.

Does anyone out there have an effective solution to this problem?

And why would Apple make it this impossible to do such a simple thing? I just don't get it.

If anyone has a solution that actually works, please let me know. I am at my wits end with this.

Thanks.

iPhone 11

Posted on Jul 18, 2020 7:01 PM

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Answer 1

MrHoffman

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Jul 19, 2020 8:28 AM in response to thomasbricker

There’s no technical solution.

HTML and differing rendering has always been and always will be an area that varies. Apple dropped the mail client message stationery support a while back, and very likely because of this mess.

The images will best be MIME-embedded, or the images will routinely get dropped or blocked by recipients, as remote image loads are routinely used as a tracking mechanism.

I’d doubt that a mail server could add a consistent footer. Not a formatted one. Not on heterogeneous mail clients and a mixture mail messages. And that’d blow out digital signing and encryption.

Options for consistency that don’t require a different app: require everybody use a corporate web client. That’ll still have he HTML mis-rendering, but at least it’ll avoid client-specific variations.

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Answer 2

Jul 19, 2020 6:12 AM in response to MrHoffman

Using a different email client is not an option in this case.

My directive is very clear.

And I can not, not do this.

I simply need to have a usable "work around"

It's obvious Apple is trying to discourage this technique do to the fact that HTMl formatted emails behave differently in different systems. (This is the nature of anything web-based)

Be that as it may, I have seen YouTubes of people getting it to work.

I am thinking the missing link in my case is that my original formatted signature was calling to locally stored images.

I will attempt to change that to calling to URL addresses to server-stored images.

Hopefully that will make the difference.

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Answer 3

MrHoffman

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Jul 18, 2020 7:10 PM in response to thomasbricker

There isn’t a solution, short of using a different mail client.

(ps: Don’t tell your CEO that HTML mail renders differently in different mail clients.)

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