How to add logo or image to email signature in Mail 4.5

http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_include_image_your_email_signature

There are so many ways for a recipient's email client and the way s/he has configured it to foul up the appearance of your message that it's a fool's game to try to make an email message look any particular way. It just can't be counted on to work, no matter what you do. If you want to send a document that looks right, send it as a PDF attachment to a brief covering note whose appearance doesn't matter.

You've missed my point. No matter what you do at the sending end of the communication, you will never be in control of the software or its configuration at the receiving end, and that is what determines how your message will appear. By sending the important part of your message as an attachment in a universal format such as PDF, you can control its appearance. You can never do that with the body of an email message.

Sorry but I think you are still missing the point. It is the recipient's email client that determines how a received email is displayed. It does not matter what you do at your end as the sender.

Looking at it from the recipient's perspective. I want to read my email in a format I want, not in the format you think I should read it, and this includes displaying images in signatures. For example, images in emails can contain web bugs so I do not allow my email client to display inline images even if you as the sender think your signature should contain inline images.

If you care so little that getting things right half the time is good enough for you, I'm not sure why you're wasting your time on this. Just do what little you can and take your chances on how or whether your logo will be displayed. It's entirely out of your hands, and besides, you'll probably never know whether or not it was displayed inline in any case.

Just continue doing what you are doing. If you send me an email you will never know if your image was displayed in line or not. You won't know even if your text was displayed in a font of my choosing not the font you wanted me to use to read your email.

eww's point about using pdf was I think to preserve the format of documents you wanted to ensure were displayed in a certain format. For example, maybe you want to email a specifically formatted form on your letterhead. The only way to email that form and preserve your formatting and letterhead would be to attach the form as a pdf file.

This discussion applies to Windows and Apple users alike.

"It seems that there is no solution to this."

Yes, now you're getting the idea. When there's no way to do exactly what you'd like, alternatives are recommended.

This tutorial is the perfect guide:

http://mydesignpad.com/creating-an-attractive-html-signature-in-apple-mail/

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Thank you Erik for sharing my tutorial here. Thank you infoadventure for being persistance in finding a proper solution to create a nice looking email signature with images without them showing up as attachments. Responding to Eww, I would use a PDF in an email only if my intention was to send an attachment of something that I want my reciepent to view exactly as I want he or her to see it. The point is, we are trying to find a way to create a good looking email signature without having the images show up as attachments in the recieving end. Your suggestion of including a PDF would not satisfy that. My tutorial explains how to include images and text styling in your mac mail which is basically a very simple version of an HTML email like the ones that you get from retailer website.

Here is the link to the tutorial again: http://mydesignpad.com/create-a-html-signature-in-apple-mail-on-lion-os-x-10-7/.

Hope this will help more people trying to do the same thing as Adventure.