If the image is removed for one reason or another, there will be no signature at all. In any case it is not good idea to have a signature that is an image only. In addition, messages with external image links may be detected as spam. Note, however, that many email clients do not show any external images in received messages by default. Scroll down to ‘Compose messages’ and select Plain Text as the preferred format. If you would like to set Plain Text as the default formatting mode, you can do it in File > Options > Mail. Tools -> Options -> Mail Format -> Internet format buttonĪnd uncheck the option 'When an HTML message contains pictures located on the internet, send copy of the picture instead of the reference to their location'. To switch into the plain text mode in the new message window, go to the Format Text tab and select the Plain Text option on the left. (In this case, the image has to be available at some web server.) On Outlook 2003, you can select: You could try to use link instead of embedded image. I have not found any information about this in Outlook help files, nor any setting to control this.
Outlook sometimes removes embedded images when forwarding (maybe if the message is sent outside your mail server?). It looks like Outlook has embedded the image in the mail message (using MHTML format) instead of using link.
