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hi Barney-15E,

i'm confused here. you say it's not used by mail. all i did was drag a picture into the signature panel. when i send an email from the mail app (with exchange as outgoing account) it adds the picture (signature) into the email. i sent one to my "spam" account to demonstrate with the "signature" i created to reply to this thread.

what am i missing?

i don't know why you're not able to add a picture as a signature. it still works for me on big sur 11.6. i even deleted my normal signature and added a different picture to test it before replying.

what happens when you try?

and are you getting any error messages when you try and add a picture?

Because Mail does not have an HTML editor.

email is a text-only protocol. Images (and other files) are encoded into Text in order to send across the protocol.

HTML email is a method of laying out the page to show things in locations like a web page, but it is not used by Mail.

I believe there are tools you can use to format a signature with an HTML block and embed it into your email.

what am i missing?

Embedded HTML in signatures.

Most of the requests I have seen for images in signatures is for an HTML <src> or <img> tags--things like company logos.

What you are doing is just adding another attachment via the signature. You could achieve the same dragging an image into the compose window below your signature.

oh, ok i understand what you mean. and i get that i can drag a pic into the email. but, for me, i found it easier to just add a "signature" instead of drag and drop the picture to each email every time. i didn't think of people trying to use an HTML link as a signature. thanks for explaining the difference to me.

You can right-click to adjust the fonts, insert links and drag and drop images into the Signature box. Anything more advanced with CSS Style, HTML tables, etc. may require manually editing the Mail signature using a programming editor and you might have to lock the file in Finder to prevent Mail from automatically changing it.

~/Library/Mail/V8/MailData/Signatures is where the signatures are stored and they are long GUID named files with .mailsignature extensions.

Are you trying to insert an image using HTML or what jeffreythefrog shows?

My previous reply only applies to the former.