I wanted to update my email signature to include active social media icons, to link directly to my pages.
However, the Icons can not be linked. Has this been fixed yet? There must be a reason why this is not possible or when it will be fixed.
I have BigSur. Please tell me how to activate the icons.
MacBook Air 13″, OS X 10.11
yesindeed007 wrote:
it has nothing to do with fancy, it has to do with actionable useful business email signature!
That is fancy for e-mail. E-mail was designed for text only. Then, someone came up with the idea to encode binary attachments using specially coded text. Then people came up with a clever hack to include HTML content, as well as attachments (maybe). And that idea obviously lead to malware attachments. Then it was decided that these complex, hierarchical e-mails composed of multiple, text-encoded, inter-linked attachments should be split all apart, scanned for viruses, certain attachments and links modified, and then re-assembled and sent to the recipient. But now all of those links are tracking bots and malware installers, so the recipient either doesn't show them, modifies them for safety, and/or sets up an on-the-fly IP obfuscation system to display them.
This is literally what you are attempting. Just don't do it. Use text. It will work fine.
Hey there ntbutterfly,
While we're not sure what it is you meant by adding 'active social media icons' into your email signatures on your Mac, we certainly want to help however we can.
First, we wanted to answer your other questions before we get to talking about what's happening:
Moving forward, what exactly did you mean by wanting to add 'active social media icons' to your email signature? The more details we have, the better equipped we'll be to assist.
Cheers!
yesindeed007 wrote:
it has nothing to do with fancy, it has to do with actionable useful business email signature!
I for one will never see your "actionable" links since I actively prevent spam/scam/phishing in my received emails. What you are advocating for is exactly how scammers work.
Don't bother trying to make fancy e-mail signatures. They rarely work.
she means HYPERLINKED social media ICONS.
I have had same issue. i.e, my LinkedIn icon in my email signature, is not clickable!! get it now?
it has nothing to do with fancy, it has to do with actionable useful business email signature!
Social icons no linking in my email signature
