Hosted or Linked Images
A Hosted image is usually hosted on a server and is referenced in the email signature using a link. The images are not added as attachments and are downloaded from the server when the email is viewed, which helps reduce the overall size of the sent email. Using hosted or linked images is commonly preferred for adding logos, banners, or icons to email signatures without increasing email size.
Steps to enable Hosted or Linked images
- Login to the Sigsync dashboard.
- Go to ‘Settings & Others’, then select the ‘Settings’ tab.
- Navigate to the Embedded images section, select the ‘Hosted or Linked images’ option, and click the ‘Save’ button.
Upon selecting this option, images in your signature are referenced using a direct web URL and are downloaded from the server each time the message is viewed by the recipient.
Example:
<img src="https://www.yourwebsite.com/images/profile.jpg" alt="">
Pros and Cons
- Cannot be blocked by antivirus software. This is the great advantage in successful delivery of the email with the linked images.
- It will never increase email size. Hence there is a possibility of email getting rejected or blocked by the email client due to the minimum size limit.
- Upon embedding images in the signature, emails received may contain ATT0000X.txt, ATT0000X.htm, ATT0000X.bin files as attachment from Exchange, Apple Mail, MAC etc. By adding Linked Images to the signature, this may be avoided.
- Images may not be displayed automatically in some of the email clients (recipient must click a 'download images' button or change settings for specific sender).
- Recipients have to be online to view the images as images are directly viewed from the linked URL.
- If the linked URL is not accessible or it is deleted / renamed then signature image display may be affected.
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