Nov 23, 2016 Mac users who rely on the Mail app to send and receive emails can easily add a logo image to their email signature. Doing so can make your email signature look much more professional (or tacky, depending how you look at it), and in this tutorial we’ll show you how it’s done. Select the Insert tab. Position the cursor in your message body where you want to place the image. In the Illustrations section, select Pictures. The Insert Picture window will open. You can search for images online without leaving Outlook by selecting Online Pictures, which brings up a Bing Image. The final step in creating your HTML email is sending it out. This is really easy to do using both Microsoft Outlook and Mac Mail. In this final part of my series on creating HTML email, I cover embedding your HTML in an Outlook email and doing the same using Mac Mail. The most effective way to place images in emails is to host it online and place a link to it in the email. For small email lists a public dropbox works fine. This also keeps the email size down.
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Embed Website Into Email
just type in the text you want for your link, select it and either use the 'Add Hyperlink..' menu item or right click and choose 'Edit Link..' Now type in or paste the URL in the drop down box. Done.
I tried using the 'Add Hyperlink' feature and it failed to work properly. I cut and pasted this link http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070321094439128#comments but when I looked at the link by hovering the # was changed to a %23 and when the link was clicked it did not send me to the correct page but to the default home page http://www.macosxhints.com/.
If you're using Safari, drag the favicon in the address bar to your E-mail message and it's linked with the title of the page.
What the heck is a favicon? I mean, I've heard of Decepticons, but favicon sounds a bit too much like emoticon, which makes me anti-lol. Please, AOL users, Dilbert fans, please don't support the injection of cutesy phrases into the masses.
you must be kidding.. favicon is the little icon next to the http.
In Leopard with the latest versions of mail and safari this creates an attachment of the web page, not a link with the title. I want that behaviour back.. not badly enough to uninstall Leopard, but badly.. any suggestions?
When 'Plain Text' is chosen as the default message format in the compose preferences, the above seems to work while composing, but the receiver will not receive the link at all.
+1 I just tried it. Mutt just sees 'Click Here' Thought it was w3m (what I use as a reader for mutt) so I ssh'd to the server, and read it directly from the Maildir with vim. Still just reads 'Click here' no html markup or whatnot. I reset Mail.app to Rich Text, and sent the same message again. It has a second part, and it is text/html. It has the html markup, with the link in it. Thought I would confirm this.
I sent email to my friends for about a month before realizing that 'plain text' links look like they work but they don't. Software update beta macos does not download catalina. Avoid embarrassment and don't use 'plain text.' Perhaps Panther will fix this Mail bug.
An Easier Way to Create Elegant Hyperlinks in Mail
A much easier way to do this is to write text in an email, such as, 'Click Here,' highlight the text, right click (or Ctrl-Click) on the highlighted text and click on 'Edit Link.' Now, in the text field that appears, you can type the desired web address, then click 'OK.'
Good tip and great comments. I continually have people that I send links to in emails that tell me that when they clicked on the link nothing happened. There are people that still don't receive html email, so though the link may look ugly, at least the link URL is in the message and they can cut and paste.
Perhaps I'm in the minority with this, but I HATE seeing a link that says simply 'Click Here.' I ignore such links and I've had it drummed into me that those two words signify a major failure of design. 'Click Here' tells you nothing. In an email, of course, you can parse the destination based on the context, but I much prefer to see the full link, ugly though it may be. The full link tells me where I'm going and helps me judge the trustworthiness of the destination. Since I know most people probably prefer to hide the link (especially with often ridiculous dynamic links the break across multiple lines) I think it's better to encourage use of more informative link text such as '..read more about this story at the company's website.'
I dislike this type of link as well, but in the interest of completeness, I must point out that if you hover over a link in Mail.app, the URL appears in a yellow box. I do not know about the behavior of other E-mail programs (on Macs or elsewhere), though. -Mark
I would recommend that you never trust a URL that is a link in an HTML email. Always only trust the URL that Mail tells you when you hover over the link. A malicious email could easily write http://www.citibank.com/ and make it a clickable link, but have the actual link lead you to http://banklogininfo-emporium.com/. I have seen this technique employed in many phishing emails. https://intensivemeister307.weebly.com/hp-scanjet-g4050-photo-scanner-software-mac.html.
Dude, you blew my mind so hard that now I've got the munchies. Hmm, I wonder what's at the Hut?
I have to second django- ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. I'd rather see where I'm going (but then I'll use plaintext email until the day I die, too ;-)
use tinyurl to convert the link to something shorter. done and done.
As it is, this is really a non-tip, inasmuch it is a truly misguided piece of advice when taken literally. For reference, see http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html
Embed Image In Email Signature
Select, CMD-K. Works in iChat too.
-Edified
django stated 'The full link tells me where I'm going and helps me judge the trustworthiness of the destination', that is a very dangerous and foolish assumption. What makes you think you can't use the above described method to simply pretend to be one URL whilst linking to another. Its exactly how a lot of phishing emails work. Just because a link LOOKS like a valid URL it should NEVER be assumed its actually going to take you where it claims. If in doubt of the source simply don't follow the link, or command click and copy the link before pasting it and finding its true destination
no, CMD-k empties the deleted mailbox permanently.
Actually, you can create the hyperlink shortcut for Mail.app using this procedure. You will need to restart Mail.app before it will work.
Just to point out some (useless) info.. First, the technique described in the original hint is a very basic HTML trick. Anyone who works with HTML regularly knows (or should know) this. But there's people who don't work in HTML regularly.. So that's a good thing to know. Second, never, ever, never (did I mentioned never ever?) follow a link in an email, whether it says 'Click here', 'www.macosxhints'; or even 'www.macosxhints.com/mygreatcomment/2007';. Those links are really to easy to fake no matter what the 'hover', 'yellow box', 'alt' or whatever says. Yes, those are sometimes good indicators but still, do not trust them. The *only* links you should be clicking is the one sent by people listed in your address book (okay, let's say people you really, really know). Because all the Phising (and ethic), companies *never* send email with links (or at least, they give you an alternate links to paste in your browser). So please don't be leazy, use your fingers and go to the website by yourself (or by pasting the link yourself). It will give you a chance to be safe and help defeat the Phishers.. (BTW, do not help that poor Somalian Lady who's husband died in a car accident leaving her $2M so she can invest it here, with your help and 25%.. ;))
In the messages that you're sending, there's no difference between what you're calling 'inline' and 'attached'. Mail.app shows attachments as icons if requested—control-click and select View As Icon—but does default to showing the contents for various types of common attachments. They're all standard MIME-encoded email attachments, and it all works the same way underneath, no matter how Mail.app might be showing the attachments; whether as icons, or as the contents of the particular attachment.